Re: "Barely but booleanly"

Really? Uh oh. How about "I know any Chinese vocabulary"?

On 6/9/08, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com <MorphemeAddict@...> wrote:
> In a message dated 6/8/2008 19:20:26 PM Central Daylight Time,
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> mizunomi@GMAIL.COM writes:
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>  > I use positive "any" for this, eg. "I know anything about string
>  > theory" -- meaning that I know a tiny little bit about string theory,
>  > but not much. The only problem I can see with this strategy is that "I
>  > know anything about string theory" could also be parsed as "I know
>  > absolutely everything about string theory", parallel with eg. "I can
>  > do anything!". But I've never had anyone interpret it the wrong way,
>  >
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> I, for one, interpreted it the way you didn't intend it, and don't think it
>  can be used the way you want.  Do you have any other examples?
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>  stevo   </HTML>
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