PinkyCoyote@sopuli.xyz to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 10 months agoAnd why you gotta touch my back with those ice blocks 😩sopuli.xyzimagemessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1516arrow-down131
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minus-squareirmoz@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoYes I’m aware of the meme. Still don’t get how “nothing was said by nobody” implies that, since it’s an incoherent concept - such a double negative surely implies someone said something?
minus-squareSunfoil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoBetter to think of it as “nothing was said, and nobody said it”
minus-squareSunfoil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoNo. Nothing was said. And nobody said it.
minus-squareirmoz@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-210 months agoNobody saying nothing is logically equivalent to someone saying something. What you want is “nobody said anything.”
Yes I’m aware of the meme. Still don’t get how “nothing was said by nobody” implies that, since it’s an incoherent concept - such a double negative surely implies someone said something?
Better to think of it as “nothing was said, and nobody said it”
So, somebody said something.
No. Nothing was said. And nobody said it.
Nobody saying nothing is logically equivalent to someone saying something.
What you want is “nobody said anything.”