Combined Genius: Genius thought #5

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Genius thought #5

"the other way around" means the opposite of what you currently have. But if it is the other way and then that way around, wouldn't that be what you just started with?

4 Comments:

Blogger Austin said...

It's kind of like how a double negative can be used (though not properly in English) to simply emphasize the first negative, not negate it.

12:05 PM  
Blogger Keith M. said...

yeah, I don't think it is grammatically correct, probably just another english idiom.

4:15 PM  
Blogger Austin said...

I think "around" is just describing how it's "the other way". Does that make any sense? I worded that strangely.

4:32 PM  
Blogger Keith M. said...

heheh, not really. :\

4:01 PM  

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