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Re: Modern manglings of the English language
gremlinn, on host 24.25.220.102
Thursday, May 4, 2000, at 10:43:30
Modern manglings of the English language posted by codeman38 on Wednesday, May 3, 2000, at 08:48:16:
> Any other "creative" uses of the English language that drive any of you people up a wall? I know there are; let's hear some of them...
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> -- codeman"and you're like, i totally agree"38
What bothers me is to hear people say things such as "Everyone doesn't make money on the stock market", instead of "Not everyone makes money on the stock market".
The first phrasing is equivalent to "No one makes money on the stock market". The problem here comes from the fact that you can't freely interchange the order of the universal quantifier "everyone" and a negation.
As another example, how about "All college graduates aren't able to find high-paying jobs" ?
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