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minus-squareFooBarrington@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 days agoBut if you’ve died, then were undead, and then died again, you’d be un-undead right? So alive? It’s basic double jeopardy.
minus-squareulternolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 days agoYou put the double ‘un’ but forgot the double ‘dead’. Oh, I didn’t realise you were actually catching the thing mid statement. Still: A dead un-dead would be a re-dead, not very alive Considering the 2x dead person is still capable of commenting, I would assume it came back after re-death and is now in some other condition.
minus-squareFooBarrington@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoThat depends entirely on whether the un- prefix only negates the other un- prefix, or the entire adjective.
minus-squareulternolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoThe thing is that ‘un’ is different from stuff like ‘not’, ‘non’ and the likes, because it is not just denying the referred word but saying that the effect of the referred word was reverted somehow.
minus-squareFooBarrington@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 days agoYou’re thinking a little too hard about a silly joke
minus-squareulternolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 days agoYour silly joke was on Programmer Humour. You might find geeks and nerds here. Overthinking is our ikigai. Now get out of line and continue with further analysis of the ‘un’
But if you’ve died, then were undead, and then died again, you’d be un-undead right? So alive? It’s basic double jeopardy.
You put the double ‘un’ but forgot the double ‘dead’.Oh, I didn’t realise you were actually catching the thing mid statement.
Still:
That depends entirely on whether the un- prefix only negates the other un- prefix, or the entire adjective.
The thing is that ‘un’ is different from stuff like ‘not’, ‘non’ and the likes, because it is not just denying the referred word but saying that the effect of the referred word was reverted somehow.
You’re thinking a little too hard about a silly joke
Your silly joke was on Programmer Humour. You might find geeks and nerds here.
Overthinking is our ikigai.
Now get out of line and continue with further analysis of the ‘un’