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Ron Hardin

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Nov 19, 2009, 4:48:18 PM11/19/09
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"I hesitate to say I don't disagree with you" - Bob and Ray

Der Spiegel:

Hamburg Max Planck Institute scientist Jochem Marotzke, on the
other hand, says: "I hardly know any colleagues who would deny that
it hasn't gotten warmer in recent years."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,662092,00.html

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Christian Weisgerber

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Nov 19, 2009, 6:32:02 PM11/19/09
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Ron Hardin <rhha...@mindspring.com> wrote:

> Hamburg Max Planck Institute scientist Jochem Marotzke, on the
> other hand, says: "I hardly know any colleagues who would deny that
> it hasn't gotten warmer in recent years."

Language log has for years discussed examples of overnegation:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003179.html
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=590
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1566

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