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Re:Ask HN: Why the Microsoft hate? by troels on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @06:24AM (#6597890)
It's not the triple negative that is the culprit here though. It's the inherent ambiguity in a phrase such as "never been better", which could be either a negative or positive statement. I'm sure there's a name for that construct?
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Re:Ask HN: Why the Microsoft hate? by Dylan16807 on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @08:10AM (#6598212)
I think tptacek's sentence would need a 'than' to have a valid reading as a positive statement. 'never been better' is ambiguous by itself, but by the time you put it into a sentence it may or may not be ambiguous.

So my answer is mu.

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