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> I can guarantee you that everything we do will not work I suspect he means "not everything we do will work". Either that or he's hinting that it's time to se
by nathanb 15y ago
> I can guarantee you that everything we do will not work
I suspect he means "not everything we do will work". Either that or he's hinting that it's time to sell AMZN.
- jacques_chester 15y agoI've seen this particular sentence structure before. It seems to be an American English thing, though the seminal example comes from Shakespeare: "All that glisters is not gold".
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- sambe 15y agoI don't think those are the same: two different uses of "that". The example from Bezos seems flat-out wrong to me. I had to read it three times to figure out what he meant. Would be interested to see other examples.
- jacques_chester 15y agoSorry, I don't have any 'real world' examples in mind right now. But I have seen this sentence construction before. "All votes are not counted". "All persons are not equal". The problem is that they can be parsed two ways and they lend themselves to the opposite of what, in context, might have been meant. In the same vein I am amused by "we're not going anywhere!"