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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-systemd-only deprecation
  @ 2013-07-31 20:05 99%                   ` Bruce Hill
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From: Bruce Hill @ 2013-07-31 20:05 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:31:36PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> In standard, formal English, that's correct.
> 
> However, in some English dialects, a double-negatve does not equate to
> a positive.  A double negative is simply a stronger negative.  For
> example, "don't do nothing" is a stronger, more emphatic version of
> "don't do anything".  Languages like that have "negative concord". 
> Old and Middle English were that way, and some modern dialects of
> English are that way.

This is incorrect -- "don't do nothing", do not _do_nothing_ means "do _something_", and "don't do
anything" means just what it says, "Do not do _anything_".
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2013-07-31 12:30     ` Tanstaafl
2013-07-31 15:20       ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-07-31 15:26         ` Tanstaafl
2013-07-31 15:36           ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-07-31 17:23             ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-31 17:56               ` Stroller
2013-07-31 18:09                 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-07-31 18:21                   ` Bruce Hill
2013-07-31 18:31                     ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2013-07-31 20:05 99%                   ` Bruce Hill

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