Language is confusing, imprecise, and often times illogical. The fact that “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a grammatically correct sentence in the English language is enough to make you tear your […]
Salience and Homonyms
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Sentiment and Litotes: How Salience Deals with Double Negatives
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The double negative is not an uncommon rhetorical device. (See what I did there?) Using two negatives to indicate a positive is a figure of speech that goes back so far that it can be […]