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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Is English decaying rapidly?
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Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 13:58:08 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 14 13:58:08 1985
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> 
> Ever hear someone say "I could care less"?  Stop
> to think about what it REALLY means?  The correct
> word is, of course, "couldn't".
> 
> 
> 				Scott J. Berry

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You have mentioned one of my pet peeves from anti-Englishists. My
really favorite, though is, "Let's see if we can't [do whatever]". Here the
clear intent is to say, "Let's see if we CAN" do it, and for some perverse
reason the exact opposite is said. I recently read a quote from Mr. R.
Reagan, President of the United States, in which he stated that the US must
see if we can't live in peace with the Soviets. I wonder how that particular
"Americanism" gets translated...perhaps with a [sic] in the middle?
-- 
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