Results: Does it irk you when people use the phrase "Do you miss not doing (so-and-so)...", instead of simply saying, "Do you miss doing (so-and-so)?
Published on 09/17/2016
A friend of mine is, by self-proclamation, nay too keen on the use of double negatives in communication. In spite of this, in all the years I've known her, she quite frequently makes this one contradiction to the rule: When reminiscing about someone or something from our past, she'll often ask me, "Do you miss not seeing (insert someone)..." or "Do you miss not doing (insert something)...", and so on. While I'm generally easy-going where double N's are concerned, I find it mildly irritating when she does this, probably because she's normally such a grammatical stickler.
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Does it irk you when people use the phrase "Do you miss not doing (so-and-so)...", instead of simply saying, "Do you miss doing (so-and-so)? Yes
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No
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It's actually my preferred way of beginning such a question
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