negatives

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Apr 6 01:28:16 UTC 2011


I thought this sentence might be of interest:

 > Nobody can argue that not landing a third crown would tarnish his
reputation.

This is from an ESPN post. I am not suggesting there is anything wrong
with it, grammatically or logically. But it does take a more careful
read than most ESPN language.

     VS-)

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