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Originally Posted by Ea
It's like a double negation, which technically (logically) cancels itself, but it does change the actual meaning of a sentence. Well, it does in Danish - it might be why I apparently got this wrong in English?
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Too many people assuming that the rules of Boolean logic apply to English. They don't. In English double negatives are often used for emphasis.
However, the use of double negatives in English is now generally considered improper, and is occasionally ambiguous.
So don't use no double negatives.
