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There's nothing wrong with using double negatives. Comprehension problems only occur when they're used in error, so they're pretty much like anything else in language usage.
Using multiple and/or extremely long parenthesised statements causes many more comprehension problems, but that can be corrected by working on the structure of the content, rather than attempting to force spiral emotional content into the rectangular hole of a sentence, to ensure that the actual intent of the words is what immediately reaches the mind of the reader.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Using multiple and/or extremely long parenthesised statements causes many more comprehension problems, but that can be corrected by working on the structure of the content, rather than attempting to force spiral emotional content into the rectangular hole of a sentence, to ensure that the actual intent of the words is what immediately reaches the mind of the reader.
Hi Mark, This is a wonderfully self-referential sentence, which reminds me of one of the nights in "The Thousand and One Nights" where Scheherazade tells the Sultan the tale of the telling of the "The Thousand and One Nights!" itself ... or, in Don Quixote where the "Knight of the sorrowful countenance" appears as a character in another author's bogus novel that he's passing off as a novel by Cervantes about Don Quixote.
If you can think this way, you are ready for Jorge Borges.
Congratulations !
cheers, Bill
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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BillWoodruff wrote: a wonderfully self-referential sentence
At least someone noticed.
BillWoodruff wrote: you are ready for Jorge Borges
Being something of a stickler for details in punctuation, I prefer one Victor to multiple Jorges.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm mildly curious what your response would be if they went for that grand old construct as a content placeholder instead...
"Lidnug is currently finding itself."
I'm also wondering how you let "now currently" slide.
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Lidnug[^] is the first LinkedIn forum (or whatever they're called) that I actually actively participate in. There's some really intelligent people there (Peter Shaw being one of them and introduced me to Lidnug) and I enjoy the discussions.
As to the double-negative, yeah, it makes me wonder how these things pass proof reading. Oh wait...
Marc
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modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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That depends on your nose, and how you feel about maggots.
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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Minor verbiage slips don't bother me especially when the content seems obvious.
Of course, hopefully, the total content of this article/webinar isn't claiming that all performance problems are caused by memory.
That of course would be flat out wrong. The vast majority of performance problems, the ones that actually matter to the business (versus research bit twiddlers) are architecture and design.
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Movie Quote Of The Day
It was the mirror!
Of course it was. Now which movie?
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Phone Taping for Fun and Profit
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Must be from the movie Blind[ ▌]
»»» <small>Loading Signature</small> «««
· · · <small>Please Wait</small> · · ·
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Paris Through The Looking Glass?
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Quote: snow white and the huntsman
Ravi Khoda
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Tommy
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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As of 18:00 this evening - going to Malawi and I don't expect to have internet access...
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: I don't expect to have internet access
And you call that a holiday? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: Malawi
Pray tell why?
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly
"I have sexdaily. I mean dyslexia. Fcuk!"
Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
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Long back story involving the fact that I used to live there as a child (very long time ago) but mainly to climb Mt Mulanje[^]
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Ok, very cool thing to do.
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly
"I have sexdaily. I mean dyslexia. Fcuk!"
Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
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I am on a weeks holidays from last night.
Off to beautifull Harvey Bay, QLD[^] for a week to meet up with my folks.
First off though, a quick mtn bike ride on some single tracks in the local national park to get the adrenalin running. 
What are you all up to today... 
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly
"I have sexdaily. I mean dyslexia. Fcuk!"
Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
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Andy_L_J wrote: I am on a weeks holidays from last night.
What are you ding organising to go back to work for one day next Friday just to havethe weekend off?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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