the_stat_man

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[–] the_stat_man@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Good one, and you now have a mantled wall!

[–] the_stat_man@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (5 children)

These are called orphaned negatives and English has loads of them. A great article about them is here: https://stephenliddell.co.uk/2021/03/17/a-gruntled-look-at-orphan-negatives/

As a slight tangent, a similar peculiarity in English (which I don't know of a name for) is where you can use the opposite words for similar actions, e.g. you can chop a tree down and then chop it up.

[–] the_stat_man@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

I'm intrigued. What question did you answer?

[–] the_stat_man@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

This is brilliant!

[–] the_stat_man@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

You can cut a tree down and then cut that same tree up

[–] the_stat_man@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

And the human form, vCJD - variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease