Stinger wrote:

Gosh, Les... I'm SURE you'll be missed. Don't forget not to write.

Nice double negative.


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"longwave" wrote in message
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Stinger wrote:

Gosh, Les... I'm SURE you'll be missed. Don't forget not to write.

Nice double negative.



In this case, the grammar is correct as a syntax trick, as per Paul Harvey's
common usage, "We're not doing nothing about the war on drugs," and etc. (as
he gives an example of what we're doing on the war on drugs, etc.)

-- Stinger

Stinger wrote:
"longwave" wrote in message



In this case, the grammar is correct as a syntax trick, as per Paul Harvey's
common usage, "We're not doing nothing about the war on drugs," and etc. (as
he gives an example of what we're doing on the war on drugs, etc.)

-- Stinger



Reminds me of a story about an professor at the school
I went to. Maybe it's apocryphal -

He was sitting in the back in someone else's
class, and the other guy said it was interesting that a
double negative makes a positive, but a double positive
doesn't make a negative, and he called out from the
back "Yeah, yeah!"