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Originally Posted by tdol Other than riddles?????  |
I believe context is the determinant.
[1] Both are not secretaries.
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Of the two one is (not) a secretary
It's not the default reading, agreed, but it's possible, at least in my dialect. "Both" refers to a set, and that set is made up of two individual items. Negate the set and we get reading [a]; negate the individual items within that set and we get reading [b].
[a] neither is a secretary
[b] one is (not) a secretary