• irmoz@reddthat.com
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    9 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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            9 months ago

            Nobody saying nothing is logically equivalent to someone saying something.

            What you want is “nobody said anything.”

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              9 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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                9 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?

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                  9 months ago

                  I don’t know how else to explain it. I guess you just have to be against the Internet one this one.