innovative "nevertheless"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Nov 23, 2006, at 9:39 PM, Doug Wilson wrote:

>> a sighting of "nevertheless" used like "not to mention" or "to say
>> nothing of", with a request for other cites, and a brief discussion
>> of how one might search for such things (with a reference to the
>> stanford ALL project):
>>
>> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003815.html
>
> In this instance my impression is that "nevertheless" is simply an
> error
> for the 'conjunction' "much less" ...

good idea (which i've added to the posting).  though it was surely an
error at first, the question is whether it's spreading.

arnold

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