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  • Regarding double negatives, I get what you are saying, but they absolutely can be interpreted as a positive - this is easily proven by simply reversing one of them, and they can be reversed because they are after all negatives.

    But if the speaker’s meaning is clear then of course it’s rude and incorrect to misinterpret them.
    I feel like there’s a gray area though where some constructions may be genuinely ambiguous which way the speaker meant (since a double negative as negative by definition means the opposite of what the words would mean otherwise)


  • Ah, probably so - I have no idea how long in absolute terms it takes to reach any given amount of fluency, but my thought was that they noticeably still have a way to go - which I figured was why they asked, to get a straight answer on that.

    I also have no idea how it’s evaluated or what system those level labels are part of.


  • davidgro@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldAre these correct?
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    10 days ago

    No, those are not correct.

    If I saw either of those, I would assume that you started learning English recently. (Which is fine, it just means more work for us to understand each other)

    As other comments have said the meaning is mostly clear but it’s not how native speakers talk.