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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Is English decaying rapidly?
Message-ID: <701@rtech.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 05:37:43 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 20 05:37:43 1985
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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".
> 
> FROM:   Brian G. Gordon, CAE Systems Division of Tektronix, Inc.

No, only one of them is alike.  What they really mean is "Phone companies are
not all alike."
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..."

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