[Ads-l] Freudian hypernegation?

[Jonathan Lighter]

And who describes a conversation, emphatically and repeatedly (even
flamboyantly) as "perfect"?

Maybe "perfect" means "so perfectly phrased as not to be incriminating"?

JL

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 12:23 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Or just ungrammaticality. I doubt that that individual is even aware of the
> concept of double (or more-uple) negation.
>
> MAM
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019, 11:46 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/us/politics/trump-china-bidens.html
> >
> > Mr. Trump has defended his conversation with Mr. Zelensky as “perfect”
> > even after a rough transcript of the call was released that showed him
> > seeking help from Ukraine in investigating the Bidens. And he doubled
> down
> > on his request on Thursday.
> >
> > “I would say that President Zelensky, if it were me, I would recommend
> > that they start an investigation into the Bidens,” Mr. Trump said.
> “Because
> > nobody has any doubt that they weren’t crooked.”
> >
> > I certainly have no such doubt.
> >
> > LH
> >
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