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Off-topic comment but it seems like some kind of trend to intentionally use double negatives in comments. I understand that sometimes using the double negative could be an important distinction, e.g. "not uncommon" does not necessarily mean common, but in this case I think one has to go out of the way to say "not infrequently." Maybe it's just me but I had to re-read that sentence to be sure I understood what was said.


Could just be regional idioms; I think I picked that phrase up from some British folks who made a habit of understatement. It isn't especially friendly to the reader, I'll admit (there, I did it again!).


The phrase ``not uncommon'' is not uncommon in the UK.


I mentally cross out the "not" and the "un" or "in"; then it reads correctly.

e.g.:

  "not uncommon" becomes
  "      common"




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