Paul Blay wrote:

> Now I look back I see I was mis-remembering what I'd read.
> It was, as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, that 全然
> could from the start be used with grammatically positive
> sentences that have negative meanings (e.g. 全然違う).
> However it does also do an interesting interpretation of why
> 全然大丈夫 has come to be widely accepted while 全然うれしい
> doesn't sound right.
> 
> http://www.atok.com/nihongo/vol04.html
> 
> DNS error when I tried to get it just now, so here's the Google cache link.
> 
> http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:DmXSVCRzrOoJ:www.atok.com/nihongo/vol04.html+www.atok.com/nihongo/vol04.html+%E5%85%A8%E7%84%B6%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%88%E5%A4%AB&hl=ja 

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