Misnegation of the week
From a letter to the editor in the Nov. 8 New Yorker:
Such rhetoric then [by left-wing critics of George W. Bush] was hardly less corrosive, or less supported by scholarly reasoning, than the crackpot vitriol now spewed by Beck and his ilk.
As we've noted many times, combinations of negation and scalar predicates are hard for our poor monkey brains to process.
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