X, let alone Y

Language Log 2013-04-05

Summary:

"No pictures should have been sent out, let alone been taken," said Trent Mays after he was found guilty of disseminating a nude photo of a minor, according to this account of the notorious Steubenville rape case. If that is what Mays said, then he has apparently internalized the wrong meaning of the idiom let [...]

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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4553

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Authors:

Geoffrey K. Pullum

Date tagged:

04/05/2013, 22:36

Date published:

04/05/2013, 15:57