On 2015-12-14 14:08, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Qu Wenruo posted on Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:32:02 +0800 as excerpted:
Oh, my poor English... :(
Well, as I said, native English speakers commonly enough mis-negate...
The real issue seems to be that English simply lacks proper support for
the double-negatives feature that people keep wanting to use, despite the
fact that it yields an officially undefined result that compilers (people
reading/hearing) don't quite know what to do with, with actual results
often throwing warnings and generally changing from compiler to
compiler . =:^)
It's a trap! Haha. Yeah like you say, it's not a matter of poor
English. Qu writes very understandable English. Officially in English
the negatives should cancel, which is different in many other
languages where additional negatives amplify. But even native English
speakers have dialects where it amplifies, rather than cancels. So I'd
consider the double or multiple negative in English as a
colloquialism. And a trap!
Some days I really wish Esperanto or Interlingua had actually caught on...
Or even Lojban, at least then the language would be more like the
systems being discussed, even if it would be a serious pain to learn and
use.
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