:But see also litotes : " not effective " is not necessarily synonymous with " ineffective " the former says that the attempt was merely not good enough, but the latter that it's not good at all.
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:Some of your usages sound close to litotes, which is the use of the negative as an understatement, and feature a word order similar to what you are suggesting above .-- 32 " "'07 : 24, 27 November 2011 ( UTC)
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It is quite common in Quebec French to describe something positive using litotes, such as " pas laid " ( " not ugly " ) for beautiful or " pas pire " ( " not worst " ) for good when standard French would suggest using the positive equivalent instead.
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The American literary critic Henry Louis Gates Jr . wrote in " The Signifying Monkey " ( 1988 ) that signifyin'is " a trope, in which are subsumed several other rhetorical tropes, including metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony ( the master tropes ), and also hyperbole, litotes, and metalepsis.
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The latter requires a proof of rain, whereas the former merely requires a proof that rain would not be contradictory . ( This distinction also arises in natural language in the form of litotes . ) Double negation introduction is a theorem of both intuitionistic logic and minimal logic, as is \ neg \ neg \ neg A \ vdash \ neg A.
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Gates claims that signifying is a trope in which are subsumed several other rhetorical tropes, including metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, and also hyperbole an litotes, and metalepsis . Signifying also refers to the way in which African-American " authors read and critique other African American texts in an act of rhetorical self-definition ".
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Sylvester says that Angelou uses the same technique in " Letter to an Aspiring Junkie ", also in " Diiie ", in which the understatement contained in the repeated phrase " nothing happens " is a litotes for the prevalence of violence in society . and states, " A knowledge of black linguistic regionalisms and folklore enhances the appreciation of Angelou's poems ".
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Another typical example is " Ce n'est pas b�te ! " ( " It's not stupid " ), generally said to admit a clever suggestion without showing oneself as too enthusiastic . ( As with all litotes, this phrase can also be used with its literal meaning that the thing is not stupid but rather may be clever or occupy the middle ground between stupid and clever .)
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:: : And in the case of " meno male che . . . " an acceptable translation would be " it's a good thing that . . . " The double negative used in " meno male " can also be heard as a form of litotes ( and that article even mentions it as an example ) .---talk 10 : 13, 24 April 2015 ( UTC)
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