"Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/27/2011 03:50 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>...
>If someone is trying to say that it is wrong to change word order to make a
>point, to add emphasis, even to just sound poetic (or pretentious), I have
>to disagree.

And to construct a punch line for a joke.

So do I (disagree), and also with respect to the original example.

>It's is one of the great joys of English that we are not stuck
>with a lot of rules for word order.

More such rules than Latin, though?

Joel

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