"so Auxn't NP"

[Marc Sacks]

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> At 3:05 PM -0400 7/19/07, Beverly Flanigan wrote:
>>>*My favorite instance of this construction is a headline in the
>>>sports pages of a Boston paper in the fall of 1971:
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>>>THE COLTS WANT THIS ONE?
>>>SO DON'T THE PATS!
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Could "so don't I" be a false negative like "I could care less"?

Marc Sacks
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