Overnegation in Funky Winkerbean
Posted by Neal on November 23, 2007
Today’s entry in the recently rebooted Funky Winkerbean comic strip finds the former high school band director watching a marching band on TV and reminiscing:
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Ben Zimmer said
Here’s another one from the funny pages.
Absence of Non-Overnegation « Literal-Minded said
[...] There’s me, of course. And in Mark Liberman’s post from 2004 (which I linked to in my last post on this topic), he found that two out of ten randomly selected examples had compositional miss-not. To [...]