"Inverse 'let alone'"
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Tue May 22 23:44:39 UTC 2012
At 5/22/2012 07:04 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>the inverse "let alone" we've also discussed ("I've never been to
>Paris, let alone France").
What's inverse about this? That is, what should I say instead? I
find the above quite straightforward, and not illogical. Searching
for a short substitute, I come up with "nor even to France", but that
doesn't sound colloquial in my dialect.
Joel
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