I noticed a prevalent speech trend cropping up in Cornwell's writing. This is the tendency to use negative positives instead of positive negatives, e.g., not happy instead of unhappy, don't like instead of dislike, etc. I'm trying to use the negatives both in my speech and my writing, but it's difficult with everyone around using the positives. At this rate antonyms are going to disappear from the English language.
Sharpe books, Grammar gripe
I noticed a prevalent speech trend cropping up in Cornwell's writing. This is the tendency to use negative positives instead of positive negatives, e.g., not happy instead of unhappy, don't like instead of dislike, etc. I'm trying to use the negatives both in my speech and my writing, but it's difficult with everyone around using the positives. At this rate antonyms are going to disappear from the English language.
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