From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-io0-f178.google.com ([209.85.223.178]:35299 "EHLO mail-io0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753001AbbLNUdw (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:33:52 -0500 Received: by iofq126 with SMTP id q126so47587921iof.2 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:33:51 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Still not production ready To: Chris Murphy References: <8336788.myI8ELqtIK@merkaba> <566E2490.8080905@cn.fujitsu.com> <566E7072.8020108@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Btrfs BTRFS From: "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" Message-ID: <566F2783.10004@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:33:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.