negation + "including" (dangling modifier for free)

[Victoria Neufeldt]

Negation + 'including' doesn't work for me either.  But, man, that
whole sentence needs to be recast: besides the negation-+-'including'
and the dangling modifier, 'including' doesn't even make sense here,
because there was only *one* 'no' vote.

Victoria

Victoria Neufeldt
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> Of Arnold M. Zwicky
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:14 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: negation + "including" (dangling modifier for free)
>
>
> from the Palo Alto Daily News, "City OKs university land deal" by
> Jason Green, 5/4/05, p. 74:
> -----
> Although touted by university officials and city staff as a historic
> deal, not everyone was in favor of the agreement, including council
> member Yoriko Kishimoto.  Of the six council members
> eligible to vote
> on the Mayfield agreement, Kishimoto cast the sole "no" vote.
> -----
>
> "not everyone was in favor" implies "there were people not in
> favor"/"some people were not in favor", and *then* we get
> an explicit
> reference to a group than kishimoto  can be asserted to be included
> in.  for me, "not everyone" isn't enough to support the "including
> NP" phrase.  but i'm guessing that other people's mileages vary.
>
> arnold
>
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