[Ads-l] From the UD def. of _bet_

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Dec 26 00:20:13 UTC 2017


"BET music is a joke. It would be a real shocker to see performers like Keb
Mo', Robert Cray, or Corey Harris featured on that network. _They probably
never won't_."

"Probably never won't" < "probably never will not [be featured]" with
regular double negation followed by contraction of _will not_ > [won't],
though intending "They probably won't never"???

Youneverknow.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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