History: Writing in the positive?
This might be outside the bailiwick of the forum:Strunk & White and others state that putting statements in positive form makes them more easily understood. Has this always been an aspect of...
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Strunk & White and other such writers said a lot of things because they felt right to them, not because they are objectively true. I seriously doubt that positive statements are more easily...
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Outside of formal, edited writing, the negative seems to appear just as frequently as the positive in English. I don't see any reason to prefer the positive other than to avoid being nitpicked by...
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