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Originally Posted by RonBee "Nobody has yet to describe her as the anti-Christ" means nobody has described her that way yet. The sentence holds open the possibility that somebody might still do it.
:) | RonBee,
Thank you for your reply.
If you say something like the following:
(1) Her critics have yet to describe her as the anti-Christ
it means "her critics haven't described her as the anti-Christ yet", doesn't it? |
Yes. They haven't done so. It's possible that they will, but, of course, they might not.
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Originally Posted by CuriousT If you have "no one" instead as the subject as in the following:
(2) No one has yet to describe her as the anti-Christ
doesn't it mean "there is no one who hasn't described her as the anti-Christ yet," i.e., "everyone has described her as the anti-Christ"?
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Not quite. You've got it the wrong way around. Nobody ("No one") has described her that way, and they might never do so.
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