English in the Mathamatical World

Hi all, sorry for the long wait in posts, it got busy. Nobody told me life would be so busy!

Lately, we were debating on wether a word was positive or negative. You know, when you get those sentences that say, "Don't stop" among other things, they are deffinitely negative, because they are telling not to. Sentences that are "Please keep" or something like that are positive, because they are asking to do. We all know that.

But what happens if the sentence is "Stop keep fighting!"? Well, that is when the math comes into play. You put the sentence into a mathamatical equation like:

-4(stop)+ 4(keep)+ 8(fighting)= x.

Because "stop" and "keep" both have the same number of letters in them, and because "stop" is negative and "keep" is positive, they cancel themselves both out.

-4(stop)+ 4(keep)+ 8(fighting)= x.
-4 + 4 + 8 = x
0 + 8 = x

Then we finish the equation:

-4(stop)+ 4(keep)+ 8(fighting)= x.
-4 + 4 + 8 = x
0 + 8 = 8

Since the equation equals +8, it is a positive sentence. Period.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how to determine if a sentence is negative or positive.

-Sarah
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