Re: negatives and double negatives
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 29, 2005, 21:56 |
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On Aug 28, 2005, at 1:21 AM, william drewery wrote:
> i think it would be awesome to work in some cool negatives, like
> french 'ne... guere' (hardly, barely) and 'ne... que' (only) into a
> conlong. i'm sure it would be pretty easy to express 'almost' as a
> negative, since it means x didn't happen anyway. can anyone else think
> of some other ideas expressable as negative constructions, and/or
> examples from natlangs? thanks,
>
> travis
almost = "not quite"
-Stephen (Steg)
"brooklyn don't run / we run s---"
~ 'lighters up' by lil kim