Weird negation?

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Aug 12 17:45:23 UTC 2009


Heard somewhere 'nother (poor note-taking; forgive?):

"_Any_ discussion _won't_ be sufficient to solve the current problems"

vs.

"_Won't any_ discussion be sufficient to solve the current problems"

or even

_No_ discussion _will_ be sufficient to solve the current problems"

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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