We don't need no education (FAO grammar pedants)

[BliarOut]

Oh really? Well I've been listening to the Floyd quite a lot lately and this is really starting to bug me...

We don't need no education? It's a double negative FFS, it follows that you must need some education if you don't need nun! (sic)

Must be my age, but the irony of the ultimate anti-education song proving that you need it isn't lost on me.

Just had to get that off my chest...

Mods, it's NOT a music post, it's a grammar one...

[soad]

BliarOut said:

We don't need no education? It's a double negative FFS, it follows that you must need some education if you don't need nun! (sic)

But but, it sounds so good.

[BliarOut]

soad said:

BliarOut said:

We don't need no education? It's a double negative FFS, it follows that you must need some education if you don't need nun! (sic)

But but, it sounds so good.

It may provide short term aural satisfaction, but the fact remains it is grammatically incorrect. "Digging around on a piece of ground in your home town" however is both grammatically correct and still sounds good

[NoNeed]

Remember a double negative is a no no

[BliarOut]

[Johnny]

BliarOut said:

It may provide short term aural satisfaction...

Sounds good. I don't see an isuue

[Blue Meanie]

Maybe it's ironic? Maybe it's how kids spoke when he was young, and as it is the song of a 'child' then that is the point?

[singlecoil]

Shouldn't this be in the Music forum?

[Blue Meanie]

singlecoil said:

Shouldn't this be in the Music forum?

Bloody subforum pedants!

[drivin_me_nuts]

Perhaps it means that the kind of education we need isn't the kind of st that is prescribed to the kids of today and even back in 1979?


Great song. The perfect song for sitting on the M25 in yet another jam wondering why you do this every day. Drop the roof, turn it up to 11, sit back, relax and dream of something different.

Still one of the best albums ever, though it's fair to say that Mr Waters has never seemed to outgrow his 'issues'.

[garycat]

It's a little ironic considering that Pink Floyd met at university.

[kVA]

garycat said:

It's a little ironic considering that Pink Floyd met at university.

What's even more ironic is the line itself is meant to be ironic...


Anyway, with music like that, performed by off-the-scale proper petrol-heads like Nick Mason, who gives a stuff

[Mr E Driver]

This Thin Lizzy gem always makes me laugh...
Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
Somewhere in this town

Mods...It's not a music post it's a cfuking stupid line...

[duncancallum]

The double negative is intended saying that the kids do require education. Its humorous play on words.

[Oakey]

Blimey, I thought most people were well aware of the meaning of those lyrics

[HOGEPH]

A double positive can also be a negative.

Yeah, right!

[Tyre Smoke]

Wasn't it banned in Saaf Africa?

[stephen300o]

I must have been about nine when that came out, I remember at the time thinking, actually I think you probably do.

[Shaw Tarse]

Hey teacher...

[wicz]

We dont need no education is a double negative
Thats the whole point!!! Its delibrate

IRONY