The new (old?) "specialize

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/21/2011 06:08 PM, victor steinbok wrote:
>Sorry, not paying attention... But it doesn't seem all that unusual--just
>less usual than the other kind. "Specialize in all" gets 19M raw ghits.

I won't ask Victor to tell us what percentage of these claims
encompass in the totality (100%) of the object type.  "Specializes in
all types of foreign cars", for example, is less universal (with
respect to cars) than "specializes in all types of foreign and
domestic cars".

Joel


>VS-)
>
>On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>
> > Was I too subtle?  My local place *specializes* in *all* cars
> > (foreign + domestic = all).
> >
> > Joel
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