I’m skeptical that this has much practical value. It’s useful to point out the information differential in positive and negative statements, thank you for that. But there’s a reason that almost all human languages contain that mechanism, and it’s very convenient.
I predict that it mostly gets worked around, by using only a few extra words.
“The sky is something other than blue” and “I will be somewhere else tomorrow” are both semantically-equivalent to the forbidden forms. Even “I deny that the sky is blue” is a positive-form negation of the object-level statement.
I predict that it mostly gets worked around, by using only a few extra words.
“The sky is something other than blue” and “I will be somewhere else tomorrow” are both semantically-equivalent to the forbidden forms. Even “I deny that the sky is blue” is a positive-form negation of the object-level statement.
I suspect all such workarounds depend on one of a relatively small set of negation-enabling words, such as “other”, “else”, and “deny”, as you demonstrate. Prohibiting more words should eventually block all workarounds, while making writing more annoying.
I’m skeptical that this has much practical value. It’s useful to point out the information differential in positive and negative statements, thank you for that. But there’s a reason that almost all human languages contain that mechanism, and it’s very convenient.
I predict that it mostly gets worked around, by using only a few extra words.
“The sky is something other than blue” and “I will be somewhere else tomorrow” are both semantically-equivalent to the forbidden forms. Even “I deny that the sky is blue” is a positive-form negation of the object-level statement.
I suspect all such workarounds depend on one of a relatively small set of negation-enabling words, such as “other”, “else”, and “deny”, as you demonstrate. Prohibiting more words should eventually block all workarounds, while making writing more annoying.