On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Ary Borenszweig <[email protected]> wrote: > Jarrett Billingsley escribió: >> >> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Ary Borenszweig <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>>>> Also, "I think I don't like X" is not proper English. Say "I don't >>>>> think >>>>> I like X" or just "I don't like X" instead.< >>> >>> To Jarrett: why isn't it proper English? It makes sense to me. >> >> Andrei did a pretty good job of explaining indirectly why it's wrong ;) >> >> If you say "I think <something about myself>", it sounds very strange, >> because it sounds like you don't know what's going on in your own >> brain. "I think X" often means "I'm not sure of X", so saying that >> you're unsure of what you do or don't like sounds odd indeed.
And yet sometimes that is exactly the case. ---bb
