Timeline for Are double negatives ever appropriate in English?
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| Sep 10, 2014 at 14:27 | comment | added | KnightHawk0811 | Double negatives are only wrong when their literal meanings are not intended. "That was non-non-non-non-NON-Heinous!" ~ Bill S. Preston, Esquire. | |
| Sep 10, 2014 at 13:23 | history | protected | tchrist♦ | ||
| Sep 10, 2014 at 12:32 | answer | added | Louis | timeline score: -5 | |
| Jun 27, 2011 at 21:07 | vote | accept | Daniel | ||
| Jun 27, 2011 at 13:17 | comment | added | neil | I would consider that if it doesn't look right in written form, it isn't correct in written form. Spoken language has so much more variance because you have tone and gesture to add in as well to make your meaning clear. | |
| Jun 27, 2011 at 3:06 | answer | added | Kosmonaut | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jun 27, 2011 at 2:46 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | Related: english.stackexchange.com/questions/20629/… | |
| Jun 27, 2011 at 2:36 | answer | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 26 | |
| Jun 27, 2011 at 1:43 | answer | added | avpaderno | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 27, 2011 at 1:30 | answer | added | FumbleFingers | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 27, 2011 at 1:16 | comment | added | Daniel | Maybe I should understand that if it doesn't look right in written form, it isn't correct. If I hadn't italicized the "not", it would probably look absolutely untenable. The only thing I really have to appeal to is the spoken form. Maybe that's not a strong enough appeal. | |
| Jun 27, 2011 at 1:09 | history | edited | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 27, 2011 at 1:05 | answer | added | Thursagen | timeline score: -4 | |
| Jun 27, 2011 at 1:04 | history | asked | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |