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Russell Lee-Goldman
@rleegoldman.bsky.social
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3 mo
Any research on “necessarily” as a hedge/negation downplayer? A: Why don’t you like egg yolks? B: I don’t necessarily like the texture.
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Nick Fleisher
@nickfleisher.bsky.social
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3 mo
You get the same effect with certain other top-of-scale / universal items under negation: "I don't always love the texture", etc. Horn must have some discussion of this in the big book, no? There's definitely some stuff on neg/universal interactions
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