"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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