Why does the video look not smooth?

[nq:1]Subject: why does the video look not smooth? From: online (Email Removed) Date: 7/8/2003 8:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time Message-id: (Email Removed) Which of these two is correct: Why does the video look not smooth? Why doesn't the video look smooth?[/nq]
Both are correct. Although number one is awkward. It would usually be stated "Why does the video not look smooth?" And "smooth" is not

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[nq:2]Which of these two is correct: Why does the video look not smooth? Why doesn't the video look smooth?[/nq]
[nq:1]Both are correct.[/nq]
I don't know what you mean by "correct," Andrew, but I can't imagine a fluent native speaker of English uttering the first sentence. Not even someone Irish.
[nq:1]Although number one is awkward.[/nq]
You'r

[nq:1]I don't think you understand how these things work. I think you don't understand how these things work. Bob Lieblich I hope I do[/nq]
I'd say you've got it down tight, Bob.

(Is that an odd thing to say? I say it.)

Maria Conlon

[nq:2]I don't think you understand how these things work. I think you don't understand how these things work. Bob Lieblich I hope I do[/nq]
[nq:1]I'd say you've got it down tight, Bob. (Is that an odd thing to say? I say it.)[/nq]
I've never heard the expression before - does it mean the same as "you've hit the nail on the head"?

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[nq:1]Which of these two is correct: Why does the video look not smooth? Why doesn't the video look smooth?[/nq]
The second.

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[nq:2] Both are correct.[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't know what you mean by "correct," Andrew, but I can't imagine a fluent native speaker of English uttering the first sentence. Not even someone Irish.[/nq]
Not unless he was reading a poem.
[nq:1]I don't think you understand how these things work. I think you don't understand how these things wor

[nq:2] I'd say you've got it down tight, Bob. (Is that an odd thing to say? I say it.)[/nq]
[nq:1]I've never heard the expression before - does it mean the same as "you've hit the nail on the head"?[/nq]
It must, but I've never heard it either. Perhaps it is midwestern English. -- Charles Riggs

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[nq:2]I don't think you understand how these things work. I think you don't understand how these things work.[/nq]
[nq:1]My mother, often a stickler, always objected to the first. How can someone inform us about a fact he isn't, ... She is also of the generation that never worried about this silly he/she thing, as many of us do today.[/nq]
A variation on "transferred epithet",