Desire, want, and would like

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cake nor ice

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cream for dessert people would look at

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you with little slits in their eyes and

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say what is he a literary professor from

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the 1800s

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so what should you use instead well we

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usually just simply use or for negative

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sentences take a look at what happens to

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this sentence

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I don't want cake or ice cream for

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dessert we use the negative word not I

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don't

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that's a contraction using do and not

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and then instead of using the kind of

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archaic neither/nor comparison we're

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gonna instead use just or or we could

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say this in a shortened way I don't want

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either there's a word that's actually

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omitted here but it's understood that

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means that we know it's there but we

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don't say it do you know what that

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should be I don't want either off

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we don't need to say the word option

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because either already implies that

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there's at least two things here so you

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can say oh I don't want either meaning I

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don't want cake or ice cream now that

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you know