Timeline for "All is not lost" vs "Not all is lost"
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| Jul 13 at 3:04 | comment | added | user182601 | Strictly speaking, in math and logic, this is indeed illogical and incorrect. It "should" instead be Not all is lost. This is similar to how people might say everybody is not a genius when they "should" instead say not everybody is a genius. But, "Natural languages are not formal mathematical logic"---see english.stackexchange.com/questions/15935/… | |
| Apr 17, 2020 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1251163529656315904 | ||
| Apr 17, 2020 at 12:44 | answer | added | ReRo | timeline score: -1 | |
| Sep 16, 2016 at 7:39 | comment | added | Fritz | Thanks, this question bothered me for ages. Also, here's an ngram chart with the terms: books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
| Nov 15, 2015 at 15:06 | answer | added | peter | timeline score: -2 | |
| Nov 14, 2015 at 19:28 | answer | added | peter | timeline score: -2 | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 18:56 | vote | accept | John Smith | ||
| Oct 30, 2014 at 20:58 | answer | added | rw-nandemo | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 19, 2013 at 10:53 | answer | added | Gilles Gateau de Poisson | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Nov 23, 2011 at 22:36 | comment | added | GEdgar | As a mathematician, I would agree that "All is not lost" and its ilk can be ambiguous. But (outside of technical fields) who objects to ambiguous language? | |
| Nov 23, 2011 at 18:52 | answer | added | Dan Wray | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 24, 2011 at 7:09 | comment | added | Shen | I have a similar question. How about "everything is not lost"? Is it the same as "nothing is lost" or "all is not lost"? | |
| Dec 5, 2010 at 22:26 | vote | accept | John Smith | ||
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| Dec 5, 2010 at 9:57 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Dec 5, 2010 at 4:15 | answer | added | Hellion | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 5, 2010 at 3:55 | answer | added | Robusto | timeline score: 19 | |
| Dec 5, 2010 at 3:00 | answer | added | VonC | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 5, 2010 at 2:20 | history | asked | John Smith | CC BY-SA 2.5 |