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I wonder what the reason behind that name choice was... or at least, I wonder what she (through Stevhova of course) would *say* publicly about it.

I always thought it might be related to the Moody Bible Institute, Moody Publishing, etc, moody.edu/history/

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Perhaps the fan is a native German speaker, where a double negative is legitimately used for emphasis. In English grammar, the double-neg is at worst a faux pas and at best works out, ironically, to a positive.

So "not anywhere will one find not one bad word" (I'm paraphrasing, working from iphone) can be read as "one will find bad words everywhere."

I am German and I really don't think that is German Grammar.

Double negative gets a positive phrase in German. The "not" is to much.

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I agree, canis! (my mom taught German for 30+ years, I'm not perfectly fluent, but I can read Der Spiegel and converse).

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It's a newspaper. :lol: It confused me, too, until I thought about it for a second.

The name of that newspaper is what got me to remember the word for "mirror"

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I am German and I really don't think that is German Grammar.

Double negative gets a positive phrase in German. The "not" is to much.

I didn't know that and stand corrected!! I'd been told otherwise by folks who I thought would know. So, pretty certain that commenter wasn't Zsu, then, eh? Heh.

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If Sarah's books are considered to get "great literature", then Kim Kardashian is the best dressed woman in the world.

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