{"id":51720,"date":"2021-08-11T06:30:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T11:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=51720"},"modified":"2021-08-11T06:30:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T11:30:01","slug":"ambiguous-triple-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=51720","title":{"rendered":"Ambiguous triple negative"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, I read the following sentence on a large list to which I belong:<\/p>\r\n

\"Apparently no one that hasn't been vaccinated doesn't want to live.<\/p>\r\n

I read it over several times and thought about it for quite a while, but am still not sure that I understand what the author of the sentence really meant.\u00a0 Can anyone state the intent of the sentence more clearly and unambiguously?<\/p>\r\n

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Another sympathetic member of the list, who was trying to explain things in a kindly fashion, wrote:<\/p>\r\n

Some people acquired immunity naturally.\u00a0 I.e., they got the disease and were one of the 99.x% of people that survived so now they have antibodies.<\/p>\r\n

I think the original author is saying that even all those people who haven't been vaccinated still want to live.<\/p>\r\n

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Selected readings<\/b><\/p>\r\n