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Subject: Re: Ree: Double negatives, and Russian
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Date: Fri, 29-Jul-83 13:37:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 29 13:37:16 1983
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	Who the hell wants to compute parities in their heads in realtime?
	I HATE sentences in Enlgish like "...this criticism was not undeserved"
	or even "...it is unlikely that this criticism was not undeserved"
	(yes, I really saw that TRIPLE job recently in a book review)..

So do I!  Especially when they can be avoided by simple
rewording.  If my parity count of the negatives in that last
abomination is correct, "...this criticism was probably undeserved" is
much better.

	Bill (not afraid to defend English from the Philistines) Jefferys

	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712 (Snail)
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