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Context: Character A has just told the character who is the narrator that he
has the talent to be an assassin. Being a normal person, and thus taken off
guard, the narrator responds with the following:

> 「はは……、 **わけの解【わか】らないこと言わない** でくれよ。大体、何の根拠があって……」

From what I can tell, the narrator says something along the lines of:

> "Haha……, it’s nearly impossible for me to understand _the thing you’re not
> saying that I have_. In the first place, on what basis do you say that……"

I **think** that the italicized part of the English sentence corresponds to
the bold bit in the Japanese which emphasizes the narrator's disbelief, but
I'm unsure if my understanding of the Japanese is correct in terms of the
sentence being an emphasized negative sentence, a double negative, or a
positive created from two negatives.

What is the correct way of understanding the above Japanese sentence, given
the context?
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translation meaning usage word-order emphasis
Is the following Japanese sentence negative or positive in English?
* 訳が分からない (or 訳が分からん, わけわからん, etc) is an _extremely_ common set phrase meaning "nonsensical", "puzzling", "garbled", etc. 訳が分からないこと or 訳の分からないこと as a whole means "gibberish", "rubbish", etc. (解る is another way of writing 分かる in novels and such.)
  * 言わないでくれ is "(please) don't say ～". I believe you know `te-form + くれ` is [a way of making a request](http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/requests#Politely_and_not_so_politely_making_requests). Naturally, ～ないでくれ is a negative version of it.
  * 訳の分からないこと is the object of 言う. を has been omitted because this is informal speech.

Therefore, the translation of わけの解らないこと言わないでくれよ is very simple: "Don't talk
nonsense."
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