/int/ - International

>>6009 Obviously the second. Less words and less possibilities for confusion. Also Portuguese is the ugliest language in the world and always wrong

>>6009 Sapir-Whorf. Capacity to conceive of multiple negations -> capacity for logical thought. Africa shows it's necessary but not sufficient. But the breakdown in Europe checks out.

>>6017 There's less possibility for confusion with negative concord since the sentence only has negative words in it, so you can't confuse it for positive. With both positive and negative words in a sentence it leaves room for confusion in cases of mishearing etc.

>>6018 > Capacity to conceive of multiple negations -> capacity for logical thought. So that's why all Portuguese-speaking countries are the sources of geniuses and not shitholes, I see

>>6023 You have it opposite, ironically, and have revealed yourself as a t*rk. Negative concord leaves the possibility for only one level of negation.

>>6009 No negative concord is a contrivance, honestly. >>6022 This.

Negative concord used to be more common in English, but modern English declared it grammatically incorrect and did away with it. There are definitely more looney grammatically rules of English though,like word order deciding word type (subject/object).