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Re:The Case of the Extra 40ms by sitkack on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @02:00AM (#25427765)
Multiple negatives are common in some languages and absolutely do connote a distinct meaning from the simplified language.

https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/15334/what-i...

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Re:The Case of the Extra 40ms by saghm on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @01:00PM (#25432903)
Yep, I don't disagree! I think they can still be tough to parse in English though, even as a native speaker
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