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I've seen this particular sentence structure before. It seems to be an American English thing, though the seminal example comes from Shakespeare:

"All that glisters is not gold".



I don't think those are the same: two different uses of "that". The example from Bezos seems flat-out wrong to me. I had to read it three times to figure out what he meant. Would be interested to see other examples.


Sorry, I don't have any 'real world' examples in mind right now. But I have seen this sentence construction before.

"All votes are not counted".

"All persons are not equal".

The problem is that they can be parsed two ways and they lend themselves to the opposite of what, in context, might have been meant.

In the same vein I am amused by "we're not going anywhere!"




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