Simon Tatham on Nostr: A common piece of advice for clear writing is "Avoid double negatives". But "avoid" ...
A common piece of advice for clear writing is "Avoid double negatives".
But "avoid" and "negative" are both negatives! Why isn't it always phrased as "Negate things at most once"?
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