• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    But if you’ve died, then were undead, and then died again, you’d be un-undead right? So alive? It’s basic double jeopardy.

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          2 months ago

          The thing is that ‘un’ is different from stuff like ‘not’, ‘non’ and the likes, because it is not just denying the referred word but saying that the effect of the referred word was reverted somehow.