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I suppose it depends on your mother tongue.

KoffieSkrip is nie eintlik 'n Afrikaanse Javaskrip nie.

Afrikaans has a few quirks and oddities that would make it seem strange to English speakers. For example, the Afrikaans sentence above means "CoffeeScript is not actually an Akfrikaans Javascript". But to someone who is unfamiliar with the language, the structure might imply a double-negative ("CoffeeScript is not actually an Akfrikaans Javascript not").



As far as I understand, a few languages use the double negative (also called negative concord); main suspect in this case would be French influence of Afrikaans through the Huguenot settlers in the Cape.


Middle Dutch also had the double negative (en/niet).




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