Not sooner grammar

"bad pennies do not come sooner". The " not" construction is archaic.

[nq:1]Bad pennies come not sooner. Moby by Herman Melville http://everything2.com/title/Moby++-+36 What do you make of the 'not sooner' of the example cited above, please? tia CK[/nq]
The boy comes back like a bad penny. Melville is probably thinking about the old saying about

[nq:1]"bad pennies do not come sooner". The " not" construction is archaic.[/nq]
Unless the cabin boy was from Oklahoma

John Dean
Oxford

[nq:2]Bad pennies come not sooner. Moby by Herman Melville http://everything2.com/title/Moby++-+36 ... 'not sooner' of the example cited above, please? tia CK[/nq]
[nq:1]The boy comes back like a bad penny. Melville is probably thinking about the old saying about bad pennies al

[nq:1]One more question, please. What do you make of the 'no sooner' of 'If the government prints out money, inflation will ensue no sooner.' Economics by Paul Samuelson?[/nq]
It sounds incomplete. Is there something like this in the text?

..inflation will ensue a year. If the government prints out money, inflation will ensue no sooner.
or
If the government prints out money, i

[nq:2]One more question, please. What do you make of the ... money, inflation will ensue no sooner.' Economics by Paul Samuelson?[/nq]
[nq:1]It sounds incomplete. Is there something like this in the text? ..inflation will ensue a year. If the government prints out money, inflation will ensue no sooner. or If the government prints out money, inflation will ensue no sooner than 2012.[/nq]
No

[nq:2]It sounds incomplete. Is there something like this in the ... prints out money, inflation will ensue no sooner than 2012.[/nq]
[nq:1]Not that I know of. One more from Moby : What he thought of death itself, there is no telling. ... obeyed the order, and not sooner. Moby by Herman Melville What do you make of this 'not sooner', please?[/nq]
/I/ make that it is a completely different

[nq:1]One more from Moby : What he thought of death itself, there is no telling. Whether he ever thought of ... obeyed the order, and not sooner. Moby by Herman Melville What do you make of this 'not sooner', please?[/nq]
This means that he would find out (about life after death) when he obeyed the order (the call of the watch) and not sooner than he obeyed the order. The last 'than he obeyed

Quoth Cheryl (Email Removed), and I quote:

The "noon" here is a Middle English (1482) spelling of "none", meaning "no". So "here was noon passage no sonner" just means there was no passage from Calais to England any sooner than this one to send the letter with.
Another example of "noon" meaning "no" from the Cely Papers:

"but noo man saythe nor doythe nothyng to noon Englysch

[nq:2]This means that he would find out (about life after ... (in the wrong direction, so the ship could not sail).[/nq]
[nq:1]The "noon" here is a Middle English (1482) spelling of "none", meaning "no". So "here was noon passage no sonner" just means there was no passage from Calais to England any sooner than this one to send the letter with.[/nq]
I missed that completely!
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