"it won't go noticed" (syntactic blend?)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/21/2012 01:12 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>Joel, why are you sure that's not what he meant? Were you listening to the
>broadcast and heard it in context?

No, I didn't hear the broadcast; you might ask LH.  I simply assumed
that nothing goes unnoticed in commentary on (I assume) professional
football, and therefore it must have been a Sprachfehler.

P.S.:  I mangled my last sentence.  It should say "And it's
impossible for me also, although with some imagination, I can
misunderstand it."  (Larry had written "though easily understood".)

Joel


>DanG
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>On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > At 9/21/2012 11:11 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> > >Just heard this from Carl Banks, former N. Y. Giants' football star
> > >and now commentator on WFAN sports talk radio.  This is a plausible
> > >blend of "it won't be noticed" and "it will go unnoticed".  For me,
> > >it's impossible (though easily understood), and Googling for "won't
> > >go noticed", I see there are (just) 93 actual hits for that string,
> > >compared with the expected megascads for both "won't be noticed" and
> > >"will go unnoticed".
> >
> > If it's extremely ignorable, it won't go noticed -- that is, it will
> > depart unnoticed.  Not even 15 minutes of fame.
> >
> > But I'm sure that's not what Carl Banks meant.  And it's impossible
> > for me also, although with some imagination, misunderstood.
> >
> > Joel
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