Quick questions from the dialogue: is there any loss of meaning by replacing "一般人都不可能負擔得起" with "一般人都不可能負擔不起"? Does the latter sound weird in the dialogue context, or does the use of 不可能 allow the speaker to place extra emphasis on the lack of 可能ingness in the situation that 負擔不起 does not?
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November 17, 2016 at 8:53 AMHi,
Quick questions from the dialogue: is there any loss of meaning by replacing "一般人都不可能負擔得起" with "一般人都不可能負擔不起"? Does the latter sound weird in the dialogue context, or does the use of 不可能 allow the speaker to place extra emphasis on the lack of 可能ingness in the situation that 負擔不起 does not?
Mark