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I heard this kind of phrase

I heard this kind of phrase the other day:

"（そう）でないと破門だ。"

and

"しかも師匠のような人でないと。"

It seems to me that saying "ではないと"　is by default wrong.

Posted by Anonymous on Jun 5th, 2010 at 1:03 pm.

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