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Gail White 10-04-2010 01:43 PM

Double Negative of the Week
 
I just received a subscription request from Ms. Magazine, telling me that
they will bring me "Content and design that will not be uncompromised by the demands of advertising."

Somehow, I don't think they meant to say that.

Mary Meriam 10-04-2010 01:45 PM

They should hire you as a copyeditor, Gail!

Michael Cantor 10-04-2010 03:49 PM

In case anybody is interested, I understand there are photographs on the internet (and possibly available through Ms. Magazine) of Gail White in an uncompromising position.

R. S. Gwynn 10-04-2010 04:40 PM

Litotes, I think. Like saying Cantor is not an ungenerous critic.

Roger Slater 10-04-2010 04:45 PM

I'd never not say that.

R. Nemo Hill 10-04-2010 05:49 PM

Me neither as well.

Nemo

Allen Tice 10-04-2010 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gail White (Post 168652)
"Content and design that will not be uncompromised by the demands of advertising."

Somehow, I don't think they meant to say that.

Is it barely possible that they did mean to say exactly that (and mean it), but in such a way as to appear merely confused while stating the truth and appearing mod and post-denotatively disingenuous? A magazine lives on its ads. They weren't lying, even by mistake. They surely have legal on retainer, if not on staff.

By they way, to my eyes those pumps on the internet would have been less compromising if they had been wedgies.

Julie Steiner 10-04-2010 11:15 PM

As the parent of a teenager, I can testify that two positives make a negative:

"Yeah, right."

Holly Martins 10-05-2010 01:44 AM

Elvis's triple negative takes some beating:

Nobody never gave nothing to me.

John Whitworth 10-05-2010 04:59 AM

What about Orwell's double plus ungood? Though I know that's not what he meant. Nobody don't know nuffin, these days.


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