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From: Bob Cunningham <exw6sxq@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: "but not" vs "and not"
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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:11:14 +0000, Chris Croughton
<chris@keristor.net> said:
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> > I might say "I wore swimming trunks and not shoes", but
> > "I wore shoes but not socks".
> Hmm, I'm struggling to find many uses of "and not" which I would regard
> as common. In your example I might say "and no shoes" (there being no
> connection between wearing trunks and wearing shoes) but "trunks and not
> shoes" sounds odd to me, I feel that there is an implication that
> wearing trunks and wearing shoes are incompatible.
I think you're right. My attempt to devise an example
didn't work out well.
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