"it won't go noticed" (syntactic blend?)

Dan Goncharoff thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Fri Sep 21 17:12:12 UTC 2012


Joel, why are you sure that's not what he meant? Were you listening to the
broadcast and heard it in context?

DanG


On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 9/21/2012 11:11 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >Just heard this from Carl Banks, former N. Y. Giants' football star
> >and now commentator on WFAN sports talk radio.  This is a plausible
> >blend of "it won't be noticed" and "it will go unnoticed".  For me,
> >it's impossible (though easily understood), and Googling for "won't
> >go noticed", I see there are (just) 93 actual hits for that string,
> >compared with the expected megascads for both "won't be noticed" and
> >"will go unnoticed".
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> If it's extremely ignorable, it won't go noticed -- that is, it will
> depart unnoticed.  Not even 15 minutes of fame.
>
> But I'm sure that's not what Carl Banks meant.  And it's impossible
> for me also, although with some imagination, misunderstood.
>
> Joel
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