Hi Linken, "Having to write fast" might be a good alibi and excuse, but for me it's often a matter of a lack of knowledge :-) Can't cure that... LOL. FN PS: For some reason, English and History were not my favourite subjects in school... though I came to depend on both a lot in my work life. Kitem korunk?
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 at 12:21, Linken Fernandes <linkenfernan...@gmail.com> wrote: > The fact of the matter is, "remember not to do something" is a common > expression and one we use regularly in one context or the other. It is > when a word like 'forget' gets appended to it that the intended message > takes on an ambiguity that raises a question in our minds or even means > something opposed to the message intended! Hehe! Good ole Google throws > up the following book titles: Remember Not to Forget: A Memory of the > Holocaust, Stuff I Gotta Remember Not to Forget, Does My Dog Remember Not > to Forget Me When I'm Gone ... > The site, as may be expected, also has pages galore on the grammatical > technicalities of the appropriate use of "not to" or "to not", for anyone > interested in exploring the matter further. > In any case, I know from personal experience that having to write fast > does not make for exactitude in expression. In one recent post here I > described a woman as a 'fellow-tenant', where, actually, 'co-tenant' would > have been more correct. > > -- FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 AUDIO: https://archive.org/details/goa1556 <https://archive.org/details/@fredericknoronha>