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From: alan@dragon.acadiau.ca (Alan McKay)
Subject: Re: Double Negatives
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sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen) writes:

>Actually, until a few misguided school teachers tried to apply
>Aristotilean logic to English grammar, double negatives were
>a form of *emphasis*.  This mechanism is quite widespread in the
>world's languages.  Treating negation as a logical operation, on
>the other hand, is quite rare.

Can you give us more info on just who these teachers were, and when
they did it?  (see my other post which was a follow-up on the same
topic)

-Alan

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