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From: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Is English decaying rapidly?
Message-ID: <1449@cae780.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 12:43:48 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 11 12:43:48 1985
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References: <1427@cae780.UUCP> <282@kepler.UUCP>
Reply-To: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc. (CAE Systems Division), Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <282@kepler.UUCP> mojo@kepler.UUCP (mojo) writes:
>My favorite local example is an ad for a finance company that has "loans
>available up to $5000, and more!"

The one I was trying to think of in the original posting (as an example of
making a statement about all cases when the exception is meant) was
"All phone companies are not alike", when they presumably mean to say that
they are different from the rest -- i.e. "Not all phone companies are alike".

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