Clear thinking from the political science department:
"I am not, indeed, sure whether it is not true to say that the Milton who once seemed not unlike a seventeenth-century Shelley had not become, out of an experience ever more bitter in each year, more alien to the founder of that Jesuit sect which nothing could induce him to tolerate." -Harold Laski, quoted in "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell.
Interesting how the meaning clouds up a bit each time "not" appears...
Wha.....??
Clear thinking from the political science department:
"I am not, indeed, sure whether it is not true to say that the Milton who once seemed not unlike a seventeenth-century Shelley had not become, out of an experience ever more bitter in each year, more alien to the founder of that Jesuit sect which nothing could induce him to tolerate."
-Harold Laski, quoted in "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell.
Interesting how the meaning clouds up a bit each time "not" appears...
Ton in reverse.