[luxdancer]

What does this sentence imply? Is it grammatically correct?

I don't like sports, but I do like tennis.

 

[luxdancer]

Quote:

Originally Posted by paperhanger

Ernest Hemmingway claimed that there were only three sports: motorcycle racing, bullfighting, and mountain climbing. Everything else is a game.

XD

 

[luxdancer]

It's not that I'm trying to build a sentence - I guess I'm looking for precedent why it's wrong. It actually came up like this, as part of flavour text for a fictional culture: They cannot eat meat, but they can eat fish and whale. I thought this implied fish/whale was not meat and the sentence was constructed ambiguously...

 

[luxdancer]

It is a big to-do about how they cannot eat meat, but it's still ambiguous as to what they mean by meat. I think it's poorly constructed, it isn't in some chic-chic context of wine pairing.

Anyway, ignore the context, that's a separate issue - does saying "!a, but b" imply that "b is !a"? That is still the "meat" of the question.