Don’t get caught using wrong double negatives

I was tempted to write this retrospective on double negatives by the online fracas that erupted recently between two highly placed lawyers — a commissioner of the national poll body versus a state university law dean — over their opposing views on the fatal shooting of a discharged army corporal last April 21 by a police sergeant manning a coronavirus control checkpoint in Quezon City.

No, I have caught neither of the two lawyers hurling a vicious double negative against the other, but their brickbats reminded me of another Filipino lawyer’s highly provocative rant in late 2013 against banning the use of mobile phones inside bank premises.