randomsteelerfan wrote:SteelerChef wrote:
Incorrect.
If not in the context it was used in means literally...if not....as in not great but capable.
Like I wrote, pretty easy to research.
Adv. 1. if not - perhaps; indicating possibility of being more remarkable (greater or better or sooner) than; "will yield 10% if not more"; "pretty if not actually beautiful"; "let's meet tonight if not sooner"
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/if+not
Random
I apologize for utterly confusing you on a message board. After thinking this through for literally many many many seconds I realize its quite easy to lack the contextual gravitas it takes to understand that Ryan Tannehill QB of the Miami Dolphins, lo these several past years, is in fact a generally mediocre QB, although possessing several, yea, if not many, notable glowing efforts to his credit that in all consideration of possible ruination and deleteriousness must be contemplated and accounted for at least in part, yea again i say, if not withstanding a penultimate reckoning due at least in part, yea yet again, if not whole to constraints i object to but nonetheless must abide in this current timespace continuum
For your consideration, although I suspect unfortunately not your contiuing edification or acknoweldgement
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ifnot.htmlIf you wish to continue to discuss the many nuances of well accepted ideas please feel free to post in the general discussion. Perhaps i will deem it worthwhile and engage
Good day sir