>>thank you for your insight-bearing comment. Really, Hungarian language
>>uses the double-negation almost exclusively and in such a hidden form I
>>used I disregarded this. It WAS really a direct translation of a Hungarian
>>sentence. An other example would clarify this: as I learned English, the
>>following sentence was completely rubbish for me:
>>
>>"I like all fruits but apples" because of a Hungarian would think and say
>>" ... but NOT apples."


I think this is because of a very fine variation of the meaning of "but" 
here.
It corresponds to "except" all by itself.

Old motto

    "Touch not the Cat Bot a glove"

        157 google hits ! :-)

VERY olde english - but has the same sense for 'but" as above.




        Russell McMahon



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