| 词组 | so don't I |
| 释义 | so don't I The use of contracted not following so in a way that does not affect the positive meaning of the statement ("so don't I," "so aren't they") is a curious idiom that appears to be confined to the Northeast and is most frequently heard in New England. It is hard to find in print, being mostly used in speech, but here are a couple of examples: • This expression is akin to the old jocular negative in the following piece of dialogue: "I wish I had an orange." "So don't I." Here again, the speaker means a strong "So do I." — Horace Reynolds, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 28 Jan. 1962 • We are victims and so aren't the consumers who will have to pay higher prices to recoup the losses of shoplifting —businessman quoted in Springfield (Mass.) Morning Union, 1 Feb. 1980 It is one of the curiosities of English that a negative can sometimes mean the same thing as a positive. For a synonymous pair of positive and negative phrases that have occasioned considerable comment, see could care less, couldn't care less. |
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