[D-community-offtopic] :Double negative typo
Robert Holtzman
holtzm at cox.net
Thu Jan 23 05:52:54 UTC 2014
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 02:09:30PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> 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.
Oh, crap. I misread "why doesn't". It should have been "why does".
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