Re: Tr: Re: boustrophedon (was: Atlantis II)

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Like, how would you say "Well, she's not *pretty*, but she's not *ugly*
> either", if you simply used negations?

Well, not every English adjective has a polar negation, so we
end up saying, in apparent defiance of logic,
"Well, she's not authoritarian, but she's not *not* authoritarian
either."

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