Timeline for "Does he go bowling?" or "Doesn't he go bowling?"
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| Nov 29, 2014 at 0:17 | history | edited | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 3, 2013 at 1:03 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | You don't say! :) | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 23:31 | comment | added | John Lawler | Overnegation is not always unproblematic. | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 21:15 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Thus, the answer "Yes" can be seen as affirmatively confirming that the asker's implicitly-expressed belief is true. It gets a bit more tricky to decide whether to start your reply with "yes" or "no" in response to something more logically convoluted, such as "Don't you think that's not the best way for Johnny to spend his time?" | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 19:38 | history | answered | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |