As a logic professor, this is puzzling to me: “Ten sklep nigby nie jest otwarty.” It seems to be saying “the store is never not open” which seems is semantically equivalent to “the store is always open”. In Polish it means “the the store is never open” What am I missing? Obviously Polish and English are different languages. But the Poles use the same logical laws as well do.
This might illogical, but in Polish we negate the verb with negative words like “nigdy”, “nikt”, “nic”. Sometimes there might be even multiple negative words in a sentence! For example: Nikt nigdy nic nie robi. – Nobody ever does anything. (Literally: Nobody never nothing doesn’t do.)
As a logic professor, this is puzzling to me: “Ten sklep nigby nie jest otwarty.” It seems to be saying “the store is never not open” which seems is semantically equivalent to “the store is always open”. In Polish it means “the the store is never open” What am I missing? Obviously Polish and English are different languages. But the Poles use the same logical laws as well do.
This might illogical, but in Polish we negate the verb with negative words like “nigdy”, “nikt”, “nic”. Sometimes there might be even multiple negative words in a sentence! For example:
Nikt nigdy nic nie robi. – Nobody ever does anything. (Literally: Nobody never nothing doesn’t do.)
thanks. I’ll just have to get used to that.