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Added: August 2003 |
Comments:
| Willbut - 5th September 2003 18:24
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| It's usally negative, but it doesn't have to be always.
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| Stunz - 25th September 2003 01:58
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Heard in a coffee bar:
"These days you don't never get nuthing for nuthing."
Damn right, too!
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| Red5 - 1st November 2003 18:21
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| You ain't wrong there. ;-)
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| Willbut - 9th November 2003 21:36
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"Two negatives can be negative or positive, but two positives can never be negative.'
'Yeah, right.'
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| cutie - 19th November 2003 10:46
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old english:
(-) * (-) = +
new english:
(-) * (-) = dramatically error
=)
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| Joan - 2nd December 2003 15:30
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| Shakespeare used them with a negative meaning.
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| Don - 3rd October 2004 02:21
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'This project ain't going nowhere.'
'You're wrong- it isn't going nowhere.'
The first is negative, the second positive.
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| MrTrilby - 31st January 2006 20:57
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Joan, Shakespeare died 400 years ago; things have moved on.
It's a negative, however the speaker rarely intends for it to be. "This project ain't going nowhere" means this project is going somewhere. The speaker means the opposite.
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| TopHat - 22nd November 2006 09:57
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| I don't agree, Mr Trilby. The first speaker means that the project isn't going anywhere. It's the second speaker who disagrees
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