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  • Someone else may decide to kill you for a different reason.

  • Someone might decide that something else you did is wrong.

  • As a native speaker of a Slavic language, I hate that it works like this. It makes the language less expressive without providing any benefit.

  • They provide no benefit for comprehension while making it impossible to express actual double negation.

  • That’s a different kind of double negative, isn’t it?

  • And surprisingly, people speaking such languages as well as English can learn that each language works differently and use the correct form. (Speaking from personal experience.)

  • The killer is not threatening to you until semeone decides that you deserve to be killed.

  • I genuinely thought this was satire until I checked the community.

  • Because most people on Lemmy secretly (or not secretly) wish they could murder everyone who doesn’t share their politics and are projecting this on other people.

  • Use it and love it, sure. But benefit from it?

  • 7th Jan 2007 . You're welcome, now it doesn't really matter which order you put the DD/MM

    But do you write September as Sep, or Sept? I’ve heard that this is also a British/USA thing

  • Why would they go to war when they can just chill and listen to some good metal?