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

[Laurence Horn]

On Sep 21, 2012, at 4:39 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> At 9/21/2012 01:12 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>> Joel, why are you sure that's not what he meant? Were you listening to the
>> broadcast and heard it in context?
>
> No, I didn't hear the broadcast; you might ask LH.  I simply assumed
> that nothing goes unnoticed in commentary on (I assume) professional
> football, and therefore it must have been a Sprachfehler.
>
> P.S.:  I mangled my last sentence.  It should say "And it's
> impossible for me also, although with some imagination, I can
> misunderstand it."  (Larry had written "though easily understood".)
>
> Joel

OK, it's been a few hours, but my memory is that Banks uttered "it won't go noticed" in exactly the circumstances in which I would use "it will go unnoticed that…", i.e. that it's easy to ignore the contributions of a relatively obscure player whose unsung exploits helped get the team going on the right foot (if that's enough cliches for a single sentence).  That is, it will go unnoticed although it shouldn't.

LH

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>> DanG
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>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> > Subject:      Re: "it won't go noticed" (syntactic blend?)
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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".
>> >
>> > 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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