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I'm anti-aganist Hilary Clinton generally. I'm glad that she has resigned from election. 
I can cheer on McCain for my USA president. Republican hasn't fall down yet.......
Rocklee... you are anti-against Clinton... so if I read that correct u are against people that are against Clinton?
I just hate Clinton, but I'm okay with her supporters.
Cocanut is saying that you used a double negative.
But anyway, there's a bunch of topics on this anyway.
I'm allowed to express out negative politically. No biggie!!!
YES HATE clinton!
but i hate you for going with mccain 
No, RockLee, he's not saying that you're expressing yourself negatively. You used a double negative. It's a grammar issue.
A double negative is when you use two words in negation of a proposition (i.e., "not" in "The sky is not blue," being a negation of "the sky is blue"). The two negatives cancel each other out, meaning you have just affirmed what you intended to negate in your sentence.
Consider it like a math equation with each negation multiplying the value of the whole proposition by -1.
You're anti-against Clinton. So you're -1*-1*Clinton, which means you're +Clinton, according to that sentence.
Alright, class, for your homework due on Monday, I want you to write a paragraph about what you did during that weekend. Grades will be based on spelling and grammar, so don't expect to gain points by having a really interesting weekend. Class dismissed.
You're all wrong.
"I'm not not going to attend the party" is not equivalent to "I'm going to attend the party" in meaning. The former means that there is no way I won't go, and the latter means I'm going to go.
I understand now. Thank You for clarifying Zarf
> Justinian I wrote:
> You're all wrong.
"I'm not not going to attend the party" is not equivalent to "I'm going to attend the party" in meaning. The former means that there is no way I won't go, and the latter means I'm going to go.
According to the proper rules of English, "not not going to attend the party" would mean "not (not (going to attend the party))." Each "not" is a negation of the following statement. You're just wrong on this one, Justinian. Double negatives inherently have no meaning, and therefore are not accepted in proper English.
I suppose the double negative could have developed a meaning from overuse as a grammatical slang, so to speak. However, that still is not proper English anyway, so I don't have to acknowledge that it has a legitimate meaning because its meaning is outside the language rules which I am upholding.
EDIT: By the way, this is the 6,000th post in the new Politics forum. Not sure why that's of any significance, but... well, you get the idea.
By the way, has she officially given up yet? I've been asleep most of the day but as of twelve hours ago she was refusing to bow out.
bbc news says "Hillary Clinton will formally abandon..." so I guess not yet.
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