Re: Double negation

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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:
>   The meaning of "double negation" as in "We don't need no education"
>   often is negation. But recently I read an example where it seems to
>   be actually meant to be double negation in the logical sense:
> 
>   Seemingly from a transcript:
> 
> |. . . The more important thing is what it doesn't say.
> |It doesn't say you're not allowed to automate the kill chain.
> |So you're allowed to do that? You are not not allowed to do that.
> 
>   .
> 


      [not not]  (used that way)  is  not usu. considered...  a
double-negative (iirc)





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From	"Peter T. Daniels"  (10 years ago)


A snippet of dialog  from this evening's *Chicago Fire*:

^^^^^^^
Firefighter A: It isn't your job.

Firefighter B [feeling guilty about not telling a woman that he knew 
that her husband had been killed in the tornado]: The hell it isn't.
^^^^^^^

I think "the hell" is more usually used to negate a positive?



------------ B is saying that he should have mentioned it.

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