Timeline for How can the double negative be removed from "She has to touch it! She can't not touch."?
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| Apr 18 at 4:52 | comment | added | BoldBen | @StuartF I disagree, there is a subtle but important distinction between someone doing something because rules or physical constraints actively compel them to do it (eg she had to go prison; she had to take the medicine) and someone doing something which they know is either forbidden, detrimental or both but they do it because of an inner compulsion (eg she couldn't not steal the brooch; she couldn't not drink the bottle of whisky). In the first case the person is doing what external forces or their own good say they must second case the inner compulsion overrides those forces. | |
| Apr 17 at 15:21 | comment | added | Stuart F | I don't understand. Surely "She can't not touch" means the same as "She has to touch it"? So what more do you want? | |
| Apr 17 at 15:07 | history | edited | Laurel♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 2, 2021 at 1:04 | history | reopened |
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| Aug 1, 2021 at 20:16 | comment | added | Xanne | This question is not opinion-based; the source is quoted; the judgment that the quotation is ungrammatical is stated; the question about how to say it properly is implied if not explicit. Why then close? | |
| Aug 1, 2021 at 19:16 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Aug 1, 2021 at 11:44 | history | closed |
KillingTime Michael Harvey fev |
Opinion-based | |
| Aug 1, 2021 at 10:05 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Aug 1, 2021 at 5:48 | answer | added | mahmud k pukayoor | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 1, 2021 at 3:48 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Aug 1, 2021 at 3:25 | answer | added | Xanne | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 1, 2021 at 3:20 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 1, 2021 at 2:39 | answer | added | Elliot | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 1, 2021 at 2:12 | comment | added | Yosef Baskin | I see more an ear for dialog than poetic license. If you pick up on how language is used in the street, you write what you hear regardless of rulebooks. | |
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| Aug 1, 2021 at 1:56 | history | asked | Disenchanted and Angst-ridden | CC BY-SA 4.0 |