Breeding Spoonbills At Hickling.

[ChrisB]

[MauriceMynah]

Another excuse for the BA to fail to keep access to Hickling unavailable.

[grendel]

36 minutes ago, MauriceMynah said:

Another excuse for the BA to fail to keep access to Hickling unavailable.

so they are keeping it available?

 

[MauriceMynah]

Nope. Says they aren't,  means they aren't. 

[grendel]

but to fail to keep something unavailable means they keep it available- double negative

[marshman]

Must admit I was unaware that they had closed the navigation- it was only recently that they cut the weed back in the channel!

[Vaughan]

37 minutes ago, grendel said:

but to fail to keep something unavailable means they keep it available- double negative

Exactly!

A double negative is typical in Norfolk dialect : Doon choo know narthin?

There is also the triple negative :

Oi hint niver haard narthin loik it!

[stumpy]

4 hours ago, Vaughan said:

Exactly!

A double negative is typical in Norfolk dialect : Doon choo know narthin?

There is also the triple negative :

Oi hint niver haard narthin loik it!

Do that don't? That did do!

[MauriceMynah]

14 hours ago, grendel said:

but to fail to keep something unavailable means they keep it available- double negative

Got it!!! Very clumsy of me.