Today my partner, who is always smarter than I am, pointed out an error we have all make and nobody has ever noticed that it's wrong. When we say something like, "She wears fabulous clothes and never repeats the same outfit twice." we mean she never repeats an outfit. But that's incorrect. She could repeat it once. But that's never what we mean, is it? What we should say is, "She never wears the same outfit twice". But we don't.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
I'll never say that again!
Today my partner, who is always smarter than I am, pointed out an error we have all make and nobody has ever noticed that it's wrong. When we say something like, "She wears fabulous clothes and never repeats the same outfit twice." we mean she never repeats an outfit. But that's incorrect. She could repeat it once. But that's never what we mean, is it? What we should say is, "She never wears the same outfit twice". But we don't.
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