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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Is English decaying rapidly?
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Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 04:13:52 EST
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> I would like to nominate the following type of sentence as being
> worthy of hate.  "All  are not alike."  What is really
> meant is, "Not all  are alike."  There are more and
> more of these appearing in print and being spoken in tv ads.
> I cringe every time I hear one.   

No, what is meant is, " are not all alike."  Whenever I hear someone
say, "Not all  are alike," I reply, "No, only one of them is alike."
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..."

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