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#1 2017-01-11 16:18:37

JemButters
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"I have little to know experience"

I saw this in, of all places, a discussion group for copy-editors and proofreaders.

A reinterpretation of “little to no experience” a Google search throws up several thousand.

If a speaker fails to interpret the “little to no” as a gradient idea, then reinterpreting as “there is little experience for anyone to know about” seems reasonable enough, though the syntax strikes me as odd, cf. “I have little news to tell.”

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#2 2017-01-12 09:37:06

kem
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Re: "I have little to know experience"

Nice find. We have had other “know/no” substitution contests on the Forum: “no-nothing,” “no-it-all,” “know-brainer.” The reinterpretation “little to know experience” is especially piquant and, as you say, well documented on the web.


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