-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.4 Oct 2004

I disagree with you on the bow'ls thing. Consider the sentence:

"It is sunny."

It doesn't contain any 'negatives' in your sense of the word. But it is semantically identical to:

"It is not overcast."

Does that mean it contains a negative? No.

The fact that "bow'ls" can mean "incorrect" doesn't mean you're being redundant if you say "It is not bow'ls". Your use of "incorrect" as the interpretation of "bow'ls" is slightly arbitrary as far as the number of 'negatives' is concerned. You could equally interpret "bow'ls" as meaning "positively bumcombe!". That doesn't have any 'negatives'. Do you get what I'm saying?