negation up too high

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

elizabeth daingerfield zwicky sends me this, from e-mail to her:

> The downside to this method is that this is not a persistant setting,
> which will be lost on a reboot.

the intended meaning was (keeping the relative clause):

"...this is a non-persistent setting, which will be lost on a reboot."

or (replacing the subordinate relative by a coordinate clause):

"...this is not a persistent setting, and/so it will be lost on a
reboot."

but you can't put negation that high up *and* use a relative clause.

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)