[D-community-offtopic] :Double negative typo

Chris Bannister cbannister at slingshot.co.nz
Thu Jan 23 01:09:30 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:05:06PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:54:51PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 13:49 +0100, I wrote:
> > > But why doesn't xflock4 not lock the screen or at least provide some
> > > output?
> 
> I don't think that's a double negative.

Consider the difference between:
"But why does xflock4 ..."
and
"But why doesn't xflock4 ..."

So I reckon it is a double negative.

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