anymore

[Gordon, Matthew J.]

That's the reading I was getting.

O'Conner's statement that "Here, 'anymore' is an adverb meaning 'any longer' or 'still.'" led me to believe the intended meaning was something like "I can't believe you're still hungry." Larry's explanation suggests that the intended meaning is that "I firmly believe that you're not hungry anymore". Either way, the 'anymore' is supposed to have scope in the subordinate clause, right?

-Matt Gordon
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On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Gordon, Matthew J.
<GordonMJ at missouri.edu> wrote:
> "I can't believe that you're hungry anymore"

Though there were times in the past when I *could* have believed that.
But not anymore.

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