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Originally posted by deanjo View PostI think you guys are getting hung up on the structure and not necessarily a double negative.
"Neither of these new state trackers have yet to arrive"
would have read better as such
"Neither of these new state trackers have arrived yet"
It's more an issue of confusing tense then a double negative.
"I haven't yet tried Fedora 11"
"I have yet to try Fedora 11"
So it's a double negative whose presence was probably influenced by the choice of tense.
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Originally posted by Ex-Cyber View PostI think it's both, sort of. Tense is an issue, but the confusing part is that one of the negatives isn't literally present. The phrase "have yet to <present-tense verb>" substitutes for "haven't yet <past-tense verb>". It doesn't literally contain a negative, but the phrase taken as a whole (idiomatically) acts as a negative. For example, the following two phrases mean the same thing:
"I haven't yet tried Fedora 11"
"I have yet to try Fedora 11"
So it's a double negative whose presence was probably influenced by the choice of tense.
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