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Rotter Posted 20 years ago
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I cannot not go to
Pope Benedict would make his visit to Auschwitz Birkenau as a "son of the German people", Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said.
He revealed that the trip was not originally in Benedict's schedule, but that the 79-year-old pontiff had personally insisted on it.
"In the first draft of the itinerary, there was no Auschwitz visit. The pope said 'I want to go to Auschwitz. I cannot not go to Auschwitz'," said the spokesman.
Pope Benedict, a former member of the Hitler Youth, will pray at the execution wall where thousands of Auschwitz prisoners were summarily shot by the Nazis.
He will also visit the cell where Catholic priest Maximilian Kolbe died in 1941, after offering to take the place of a prisoner whom the Nazis had sentenced to death by starvation.
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Is it correct to say ' I cannot not go to Auschwitz'?
To say 'I cannot go to Auschwitz' is grammatically correct.
It sounds odd to say 'I cannot not go to'.
I would like to hear your comments.
[It seems the board refuses to print so-called inflammotory words; you see some stars. It is the famous four letter word for Hitler's party.]
He revealed that the trip was not originally in Benedict's schedule, but that the 79-year-old pontiff had personally insisted on it.
"In the first draft of the itinerary, there was no Auschwitz visit. The pope said 'I want to go to Auschwitz. I cannot not go to Auschwitz'," said the spokesman.
Pope Benedict, a former member of the Hitler Youth, will pray at the execution wall where thousands of Auschwitz prisoners were summarily shot by the Nazis.
He will also visit the cell where Catholic priest Maximilian Kolbe died in 1941, after offering to take the place of a prisoner whom the Nazis had sentenced to death by starvation.
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Is it correct to say ' I cannot not go to Auschwitz'?
To say 'I cannot go to Auschwitz' is grammatically correct.
It sounds odd to say 'I cannot not go to'.
I would like to hear your comments.
[It seems the board refuses to print so-called inflammotory words; you see some stars. It is the famous four letter word for Hitler's party.]
Top answer
This is correct usage. It's similar to you cannot avoid going to Just do a search on Yahoo for "cannot not" (quotations are important) and you will find other samples: We Cannot Not Know History. PHILIP JOHNSON'S POLITICS AND CYNICAL SURVIVAL ...
- This is correct usage.
- It's similar to you cannot avoid going to Just do a search on Yahoo for "cannot not" (quotations are important) and you will find other samples: We Cannot Not Know History.
- PHILIP JOHNSON'S POLITICS AND CYNICAL SURVIVAL ...
- one of Johnson's most memorable quotes ------ Eternal and Necessary All temporal things must have a cause, so the First Cause cannot be temporal, but must be eternal (whatever is eternal never came to be).
- And what is eternal is necessary, for it must exist, and must be what it is.
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This is correct usage.
It's similar to you cannot avoid going to
Just do a search on Yahoo for
"cannot not"
(quotations are important) and you will find other samples:
We Cannot Not Know History. PHILIP JOHNSON'S POLITICS AND CYNICAL
SURVIVAL ... one of Johnson's most memorable quotes
It's similar to you cannot avoid going to
Just do a search on Yahoo for
"cannot not"
(quotations are important) and you will find other samples:
We Cannot Not Know History. PHILIP JOHNSON'S POLITICS AND CYNICAL
SURVIVAL ... one of Johnson's most memorable quotes
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«I cannot not go to Auschwitz»
He has no other choice than to go there.
For «cannot» see:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cannot
You tend to provide a too detailed context when it is not useful. The pope's phrase would have been enough.
He has no other choice than to go there.
For «cannot» see:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cannot
You tend to provide a too detailed context when it is not useful. The pope's phrase would have been enough.
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Thanks everybody for the replies
«I cannot not go to Auschwitz»
So the above is fine.
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Can you change the tyres of the car?
1. I can do it.
2. I cannot do it.
3. I cannot not do it.
The first and
«I cannot not go to Auschwitz»
So the above is fine.
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Can you change the tyres of the car?
1. I can do it.
2. I cannot do it.
3. I cannot not do it.
The first and
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Yeah, you should have already got that.
Number three means: «I have no choice but to change the tyres.»
Note, that its meaning is different from both the first and the second examples.
Number three means: «I have no choice but to change the tyres.»
Note, that its meaning is different from both the first and the second examples.
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When you 'cannot not' do something it means that there is an element of compulsion there (even one created by yourself). It is absolutely unthinkable that you do not do whatever...it is only used when the 'whatever' is something very important.
Changing a tyre is not an important enough task for you to say you 'cannot not'. You would simply say 'I have to...'
'cannot not' is not
Changing a tyre is not an important enough task for you to say you 'cannot not'. You would simply say 'I have to...'
'cannot not' is not
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When you are alone in the middle of nowhere, and you can't repair the punctured tyre, you can say you cannot not to change it.
Of course, that's not a fully proper answer to the question whether you can change a tyre.
Of course, that's not a fully proper answer to the question whether you can change a tyre.
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It's just that Rotter should know that the sentence is drammatically correct, and what it means...
Now he knows both.
Now he knows both.
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