On 3 Jan 2006, at 17:35, Philip Hazel wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, John W. Baxter wrote:
Your deny looks right, but I've been around computers for a long
time (since
1957, not counting looking over work my mother brought home before
that),
and I *still* get into trouble combining negative tests. (I do
sometimes
get it right.)
Humans just do not like combining negatives. Consider "I could not
fail
to disagree more." It takes a while to figure it out...
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service
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perhaps this is why in italian it is quite common to have double
negative expressions that have the opposite of the logical meaning,
for example:
I don't know nothing... [non so nulla] to mean: I know nothing...
Likely this is why this expression, in english, is associated with
the italo-american slang...
Giuliano
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