Re: Still not production ready

["Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com>]

On 2015-12-14 14:08, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
>> Qu Wenruo posted on Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:32:02 +0800 as excerpted:
>>
>>> Oh, my poor English... :(
>>
>> Well, as I said, native English speakers commonly enough mis-negate...
>>
>> The real issue seems to be that English simply lacks proper support for
>> the double-negatives feature that people keep wanting to use, despite the
>> fact that it yields an officially undefined result that compilers (people
>> reading/hearing) don't quite know what to do with, with actual results
>> often throwing warnings and generally changing from compiler to
>> compiler . =:^)
>
> It's a trap! Haha. Yeah like you say, it's not a matter of poor
> English. Qu writes very understandable English. Officially in English
> the negatives should cancel, which is different in many other
> languages where additional negatives amplify. But even native English
> speakers have dialects where it amplifies, rather than cancels. So I'd
> consider the double or multiple negative in English as a
> colloquialism. And a trap!
>
Some days I really wish Esperanto or Interlingua had actually caught on...

Or even Lojban, at least then the language would be more like the 
systems being discussed, even if it would be a serious pain to learn and 
use.