Charles Davis Dec 22, 2012:

@ Michael "It is not necessarily that" is not intrinsically incorrect; it is simply unsuitable in this context. "It is not that..." can be said, but it means "the point is not that..." or "the explanation is not that..." or "it is not because...".

For example, suppose we were to say: "Thousands of couples divorce every year. It is not necessarily that they don't love each other." This means that the reason is not necessarily that they don't love each other. Maybe they do love each other, maybe they don't, but that's not what makes them divorce. We might go on to say: "It is simply that they can't stand living together", for example. If we had said: "It is not necessarily true that they don't love each other", we would be making a different statement, in which the point at issue is whether they love each other.

In your context, "it is not necessarily that the blooper will repulse people" could be correct, if you were saying, for example, that people will not go, not necessarily because the blooper will repulse them, but for some other reason. But the intended meaning is apparently that the blooper will not in fact repulse them, so you need to insert "true" or "the case" before "that".

B D Finch Dec 22, 2012:

Dangers of translation by Googling Regarding your note to Stephanie, you need to look at the construction of the ghits, not just how many you get. To take some examples where I have inserted clarifying text in square brackets:

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It would make me know that the dog would be capable of doing it, but [would] not necessarily [make me know] that it will have a propensity for it."

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Jim Tucker (X) Dec 22, 2012:

also the comma after "repulse" is not good English -- should be semicolon or period