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To: Jumper

English is dead.

“NCAA President Charlie Baker said, according to an article from ESPN, “At the end of the day, no one believes at this point that Michigan didn’t win the national title fair and square.””

So, he actually said the opposite of what he intended.

He could have said, “At the end of the day, no one believes at this point that Michigan won the national title fair and square.”

or he could have said, “At the end of the day, no one doubts at this point that Michigan won the national title fair and square.”

But instead he created a Frankenstein sentence with time-phased conjecture (at the end of the day, no one believes) to make a time-phased point (at this point) by giving a double negative statement (didn’t win the national title fair and square).

</Rant Off>


17 posted on 07/15/2025 9:25:49 AM PDT by RainMan ((Democrats ... making war against America since April 12, 1861))
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To: RainMan

You could even ding him for “fair and square” instead of “fairly and squarely.”


19 posted on 07/15/2025 4:02:45 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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