* 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
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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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