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Similar to what I heard during my first visit to the US about fifteen years ago -
"It ain't not work". Will it work? Will it not? Not sure (to me).
"It ain't not happen". Will it happen? Or not?
Have never visited the UK, so am not sure of this usage there. But, the English taught in India (in my childhood days, more than 35 years ago) didn't have such usages.
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When you hopefully finally visit us here in the UK, you will find that we do indeed speak the English you learnt 35 years ago. I visited the US many times during my time with IBM and I very quickly came to the conclusion that they speak American in the US. It bears as much resemblance to English as Brazilian Portuguese does to Portuguese. They both have the same derivative language but time has taken its toll on the way it is spoken today.
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Great. I thought so too.
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"I ain't going nowhere". Are you going anywhere or not going anywhere?
and
"Midnight ain't no time for laughing, when you say goodbye". Is midnight a good time for laughing or it ain't??
I caught these lines in 2 of the songs of one direction.
modified 22-Jul-15 7:52am.
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Got it. Quixote, Cervantes .. downloaded. Will do.
Gotta run now. Bye.
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I have a coworker who is brilliant (seriously), but he has this annoying habit of using negative logic:
if (!TestNotPassed)
// it worked!
I have to be very careful when reading his code.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I've seen this with previous colleagues as well.
Found it véry annoying. I had the impression they want to look clever and construct code that was hard to read so they would appear more techy like, or something.
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Actually, you have to be very not not careful.
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It still beats Abort/Retry/Fail...
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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| Cancel | OK | 
That was the first mistake!
Proper way is
| OK | Cancel |
!!!
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I'm a little surprised it wasn't
| Cancel | | Cancel |
With the first one cancelling the cancellation, and the second cancelling the operation. Except in Arabic countries where the buttons should be reversed.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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shouldn't the Ok button (or the yes) be on the left and the Cancel button (or the no) on the right ? 
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Perhaps "Abort" on the left, and "Like" on the bottom? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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no follow button then? 
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They're borrowing techniques from game developers, it's really just the illusion of choice and both will cancel it anyway.
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Clearly there needs to be 3 buttons: Abort, Retry, and Fail
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Why not use: [Import] [Cancel] ???
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What? Change the caption on a standard dialog button? Are you mad?
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Easy to use software is for wussies! What's next, automating slow, boring, repetitive tasks for these whiners?
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I presume that the "Cancel" resumes the import of Sue, so at least if you do the non-obvious thing you'll immediately get a chance to do the obscure thing.
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Reminds my of my favorite error message (PDP 11s):
Maybe you no run on right system?
To this day, I do not not how to respond to that prompt, other than ^C
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"We" are not doing it. There are people wired differently and for them that dialog box makes perfect sense as they see only one way of interpreting it.
An example of such people, I looked up yesterday "the opposite of inside out" on Google.
English is not my first language and I got small kids that drive me insane by leaving behind, on the floor, almost every piece of clothing when they take'em off.
You guessed right, they are inside out. How to properly tell them to fix that. Turn them ....? How?
Lots of answers were: Outside in, Right-side out?
Outside in?!!! Yes, "outside in". You see, there are people that negate "Inside out" as "Outside In" when in fact they express the same situation.
Link1
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"Outside in" is even voted the best answer in one of them.
So, there are people like that and some of them are software developers.
Oh in the end I will use "Inside in" or the longer "take'em off and put them back properly", do you have an alternative? I'm all ears.
giuchici
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Hah! Good luck with that!
It took me over twenty years to persuade my wife to use a laundry basket. Before that all her clothes went in, on, or "somewhere near" the bath while she brushed her teeth... 
How did I fix it? Pulled out the bath and changed it to a wet room shower instead. Perhaps you should remove the floor?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The wives and the nonchalant ways they are eroding our soul, our sanity ...
giuchici
modified 13-Jul-15 22:08pm.
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