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Two important tank games tonight.

TOR @ CLE
NYK @ LAL

Also:

POR @ ORL
OKC @ DAL

Obviously pulling for all the home teams. The Knicks @ Lakers is HUGE.

The Lakers are currently only 1 game back. We need all the cushion the Jazz can get.
 
Stoked said:
Two important tank games tonight.

TOR @ CLE
NYK @ LAL

Also:

POR @ ORL
OKC @ DAL

Obviously pulling for all the home teams. The Knicks @ Lakers is HUGE.

The Lakers are currently only 1 game back. We need all the cushion the Jazz can get.
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MODZ: pls delete duplicate post^

Post also found in Jazz vs Pistons thread. We have a possible bot on our hands.
 
tbh Stoked, Lakers aint any games back.

It's nice to have more losses than them, but in the tank race all that truly matters is wins, and we are equal.

But yeah, we basically are two "succesful" outcomes ahead of them, but the probability of their 2 outcomes being succesful is high.
 
UGLI baby said:
tbh Stoked, Lakers aint any games back.

It's nice to have more losses than them, but in the tank race all that truly matters is wins, and we are equal.

But yeah, we basically are two "succesful" outcomes ahead of them, but the probability of their 2 outcomes being succesful is high.
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Even if one of them is at home against the Knicks? I believe. YOu can't get me down UGLI. No matter how hard you try.
 
context

Hotttnickkk said:
LOL.. so only people who flip burgers can use that word?


c'mon bro.


I didn't use it in my dissertation, let's put it that way.
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Agreed, my main point is that context matters. So usage on this board is no biggie and calling someone a name is not warranted (for that matter, not sure it is ever warranted). Also, did not mean to demean burger flippers (I started life as a manure-shoveling farm boy and construction laborer), just making the point that acceptable word usage is a function of context. Peace, bro.
 
Concord

One Brow said:
When did English become a language of precision and logical syntax? Many of your points would be fine for logical connectives, but English is different. The double negative for emphasis is a firmly established, well-understood mannerism.
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OneBrow speaks of negative concord, to which I refer you to the ultimate authority, Wikipedia. While I've seen a lot of sentences with double negatives (mostly those that cancel each other out), I cannot think of other words with double negatives that are used for emphasis. OneBrow, any examples come to mind?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_negative

In some languages, double negatives cancel one another and produce an affirmative sense; in other languages, doubled negatives intensify the negation. Languages where multiple negatives intensify each other are said to have negative concord. Portuguese, Persian, Russian, Ukrainian, and Spanish are examples of negative-concord languages, while Latin and German do not have negative concord. Standard English lacks negative concord, but it was normal in Old English and Middle English, and some modern dialects do have it (e.g. African American Vernacular English and Cockney), although its usage in English is often stigmatized.

Languages without negative concord typically have negative polarity items that are used in place of additional negatives when another negating word already occurs. Examples are "ever", "anything" and "anyone" in the sentence "I haven't ever owed anything to anyone" (cf. "I haven't never owed nothing to no one" in negative-concord dialects of English, and "Nunca devi nada a ninguém" in Portuguese, lit. "Never have I owed nothing to no one"). Note that negative polarity can be triggered not only by direct negatives such as "not" or "never", but by words such as "doubt" or "hardly" ("I doubt he has ever owed anything to anyone" or "He has hardly ever owed anything to anyone").
 
Stop messing up this beautiful thread with all y'alls discussion about language. Go create a GD thread for htat.
 
silesian said:
OneBrow, any examples come to mind?
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Better than the examples you offered in your quote?

If it came up in casual conversation, who in here would really interpret 'I haven't never owed nothing to no one' as the speaker meaning that he did owe people something in the past, because there are four negative terms?
 
New York might play a huge part in determining the 4-8 lottery seeds as their 5-game road trip includes games at the Lakers, Kings and Jazz.
 
On the other side of the tank, GS is still looking like the 6th or even 5th seed. They have the easiest remaining schedule in comparison to Phoenix, Dallas and Memphis. And Portland has been sliding. So that pick will probably be #24. High enough to draft "Hot Nik" Stauskas?
 
Core4 said:
On the other side of the tank, GS is still looking like the 6th or even 5th seed. They have the easiest remaining schedule in comparison to Phoenix, Dallas and Memphis. And Portland has been sliding. So that pick will probably be #24. High enough to draft "Hot Nik" Stauskas?
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I predict that his draft stock is going to rise with a good tournament... like Burke last year.
 
Core4 said:
On the other side of the tank, GS is still looking like the 6th or even 5th seed. They have the easiest remaining schedule in comparison to Phoenix, Dallas and Memphis. And Portland has been sliding. So that pick will probably be #24. High enough to draft "Hot Nik" Stauskas?
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Sadly I think he would be gone by then. But, boy, oh boy, what a cool nick name. ;)
 
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