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From: rich@aoa.UUCP (Rich Snow)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Is English decaying rapidly?
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 11:39:49 EDT
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Keywords:USE OF TONGUE 

In article <716@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson) writes:
>> 
>> 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
>
>
>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?
>-- 
> Gary Benson  *  John Fluke Mfg. Co.  *  PO Box C9090  *  Everett WA  *  98206

Ah, but sarcasm (similar in it's flippedness) is a universal language...

	rich snow
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