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Johnjoee
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Help understanding sentence

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Hello, please help me understand following.

“We’re not not close”

What does this double negative imply?

That they are close or that they are not.
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If by "not close" you mean "distant"...

then logically it implies:

We're not distant (ie We are close)
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