... but an odd turn of phrase anyway.
People often get into a muddle with double and multiple negations. Language log has lots of posts about over- and under- negation. The one I heard this morning was a little more straightforwardly wrong.
Talking about yesterday's bad weather in Scotland the weather forecaster finished by saying, "So don't drive unless you don't have to."
2 comments:
OK. So this is not a comment on dangly modifiers. How do I find the bits about Peru quickly so that I can send a link to my daughter?
David
On my other blog at
http://anyonecandoit2.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-11-01T23%3A51%3A00Z&max-results=1
and
http://anyonecandoit2.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-11-30T19%3A49%3A00Z&max-results=1&reverse-paginate=true
and by putting "Peru" into the search box at the top of the screen in this blog and clicking the magnifying glass icon next to it.
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