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    Quote Originally Posted by Alaik View Post
    Double negatives can denote one of two things: an inversion of the verb's original meaning. "I didn't do nothing" Not doing nothing = doing something.
    There seems to be some confusion here.

    In order to be a double negative in the sense that you mean, the two negatives must be in the same clause.

    I have never claimed
    independent clause; negative used to underscore absence of an as-of-yet-unidentified claim

    that
    optional introductory word for dependent clause, which I omitted

    every other job in the game is not pretty bad compared to MNK
    dependent clause that admittedly could do without "pretty"; internal litotes ("not bad"), clause as a whole refers to the claim the independent clause said I wasn't making


    The two negatives create the effect of a litotes throughout the phrase ("I wouldn't say it isn't bad", if that serves as a simpler example)

    Dig?


    EDIT: "I didn't do nothing" could actually be a good example of a litotes, though not in the sense you're using it. "I didn't do nothing" could mean something distinct from "I did something" in the same way "It isn't terrible" means something distinct from "It's great".
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    Last edited by scaevola; 04-20-2011 at 04:55 AM.