• irmoz@reddthat.com
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        10 months ago

        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?

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                10 months ago

                Nobody saying nothing is logically equivalent to someone saying something.

                What you want is “nobody said anything.”

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                  10 months ago

                  No. Nothing was said. Nobody said it. The meme wouldn’t make sense if it was;

                  No one: anything

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                    10 months ago

                    That is the only version that actually makes sense. It literally comes out as “no one said anything”. Isn’t that what’s supposed to be implied: there was silence, interrupted by something no one asked for?