Never not...
Afterwards a disappointed Sean Dyche touched on this. “It was highly unlikely it wasn’t going to get given, you can draw your conclusions from that,” the Burnley manager said. “It probably is a penalty but it was never not going to be given, I can assure you. You lay your hands on someone, he goes down, they are tough calls; you a have to be 100%, which I assume the referee is. (The Guardian.)
Is "never not going to be given" a double negation or an utterance of one negatation ("never") which precludes another ("not going to be...") in the passage above?
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I don't quite understand the distinction you are making. e. the penalty was certain to be given.
- I don't quite understand the distinction you are making.
- e.
- the penalty was certain to be given.
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I don't quite understand the distinction you are making. "never not going to be given" means that "not going to be given" would never have happened, i.e. the penalty was certain to be given.
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