Timeline for Two minuses make a plus
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| Feb 4, 2014 at 15:30 | comment | added | CoolHandLouis | Not not is is. (joking) | |
| Feb 4, 2014 at 15:27 | comment | added | CoolHandLouis | It would help for you to provide more context about how you want to use this expression. English teachers give students a common admonition: "Don't use double negatives!" If you're a math teacher you could make a joke that math is better than english because you can use double negatives all you want - as long as you can keep it straight that what you're saying is what you think you're saying and what others think your saying is what you're really saying. | |
| Feb 4, 2014 at 14:51 | comment | added | James Kingsbery | Grammatically, your example sentence makes sense, but stylistically I was taught to avoid it because it can lead to awkward constructions. Instead, either state things in the positive (as in your second example), or use a word that expresses the negative, eg, No student lacks a pencil. | |
| Feb 4, 2014 at 13:32 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/430695410156707840 | ||
| Feb 4, 2014 at 13:17 | comment | added | mplungjan | Every student has at least ONE pencil | |
| Feb 4, 2014 at 12:37 | comment | added | David Schwartz | Two Wrights make an airplane. | |
| Feb 4, 2014 at 11:59 | comment | added | SF. | Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do. | |
| Feb 4, 2014 at 11:57 | history | edited | Jon Hanna | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 4, 2014 at 11:40 | history | edited | Yiorgos S. Smyrlis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 4, 2014 at 11:23 | history | edited | Yiorgos S. Smyrlis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 4, 2014 at 11:15 | history | edited | Yiorgos S. Smyrlis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 4, 2014 at 11:14 | answer | added | WS2 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 4, 2014 at 11:09 | answer | added | RegDwigнt | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 4, 2014 at 11:08 | history | asked | Yiorgos S. Smyrlis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |