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Conlangery #44: Negation

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How to Deny a Negative That's the Same Thing

Elocutionary negation is a special subtype of the scope question. When you say I don't promise I will come and I promise I will not come these mean quite different things very very different things yes that's true. The reason I bring it up is because funny things can happen at that boundary lexically ancient greek as I've mentioned before has multiple verbs of speaking one of them but not the others when you negate it is effectively means deny okay so again I'm pretty sure elocutionaryNegation googling will give you lots of things about this.

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