[lit-ideas] Re: Tuesday Joke
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:46:54 EST
"Are you positive?"
"Well, I'm not negative"
Julie Krueger
not certain
========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Tuesday Joke
Date: 3/7/2007 6:06:06 A.M. Central Standard Time From: _bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> ... 'I'm positive,' used to mean 'I'm sure,' etc. is an idiom peculiar
> to American English. ...
'I'm positive' in the sense of 'I'm sure', etc., is - or at least at
one time was - idiomatic in Canadian English as well. I seem to recall
the use of 'positively' in this sense in British English but cannot
give a supporting quotation.
Chris Bruce
Kiel, Germany
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