When people do not know exactly how to handle negatives, you speak of fuzzy errors. If we want seriously to apply the rules of logic to language, we cannot think only in terms of negation. Words like nothing, no or no one are the negative equivalents of what logicians term ‘universal quantifiers’. Unlike computers, when we communicate with each other we do not deal only in simple two-way distinctions: there are many other important aspects of meaning that we convey at the same time as the factual information. If there is anything illogical about double negatives, then, it is people’s reactions to them: some hate them, some love them.
The more negatives there are in a sentences, the more emphatic the denial or rejection. Different types of double negatives have come to be used by varying groups of people.
The double negatives represent the survival of a long-established pattern of negation in English and a natural pattern of negation in language generally.
When people do not know exactly how to handle negatives, you speak of fuzzy errors. If we want seriously to apply the rules of logic to language, we cannot think only in terms of negation. Words like nothing, no or no one are the negative equivalents of what logicians term ‘universal quantifiers’. Unlike computers, when we communicate with each other we do not deal only in simple two-way distinctions: there are many other important aspects of meaning that we convey at the same time as the factual information. If there is anything illogical about double negatives, then, it is people’s reactions to them: some hate them, some love them.The more negatives there are in a sentences, the more emphatic the denial or rejection. Different types of double negatives have come to be used by varying groups of people. The double negatives represent the survival of a long-established pattern of negation in English and a natural pattern of negation in language generally.
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