Re:A complete guide to TypeScript’s 'never' type
by eyelidlessness on Friday March 11, 2022 @12:00PM
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It’s fairly common usage in the US southeast, and in AAVE. Regarding it as poor grammar rather than an evolution of dialect is a matter of (snobbish) taste more than anything.
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Re:A complete guide to TypeScript’s 'never' type
by jsmith45 on Friday March 11, 2022 @01:31PM
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One major problem with it is that even in those dialects, a double negative can also be a positive, and outside of some semi-fixed constructs that mandate one or the other interpretation in that dialect, the distinction relies things like tone and/or stress/emphasis, which of course are lost in writing. This makes it rather unwise to use in writing, unless context clearly dictates one interpretation.
Re:A complete guide to TypeScript’s 'never' type
by anderskaseorg on Friday March 11, 2022 @02:32PM
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The more northern dialects are infected with certain negation-related illogicalities too. Consider this New York Times headline:
“All Options Are Not on the Table as Biden Moves Troops Closer to Ukraine” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/us/politics/biden-ukraine...
which should have been “Not All Options Are on the Table”, since the intended interpretation is
¬∀ option, on(option, table)
rather than the very different
∀ option, ¬on(option, table).
Re:A complete guide to TypeScript’s 'never' type
by eyelidlessness on Friday March 11, 2022 @03:06PM
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I am never not confused by this.