Diane Sawyer hedging her bets

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> We've discussed, as has Language Log at various intervals, the
> problems in sorting out "can't underestimate" and its relatives.
> Here's Diane Sawyer on tonight's episode of ABC World News Tonight on
> the lead story:
>
> "It would be hard to imagine, or underestimate [pause]..., or
> overestimate, what it must have been like" when those two American
> airmen were forced to bail out and land in Libya.
>

Well, as no less a sage than Larry Horn has pointed out (though he
didn't lay claim to any degree of originality):

"Youneverknow."


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