Your last point here, Jim, reminds me of the story in the very first of Richmal Crompton's William books, Just William, 1922. William's teacher tells his class that "Two negatives make an affirmative", ie that if you use "no" and "not" in the same sentence, you mean "yes" ~~ "If you say 'there's not no sugar in the bowl', it means there is." So when William asks his father if he can have a party while his parents are away, and his father replies, "No, you can not", William takes this for permission and has a party. The story ends with William complaining to his friend thru the window of his bedroom, whither he has been banished, that he can't come out to play, 'because my father doesn't understand English grammar, that's why'.

Your quoting of Keith's happening to use he word 'thousand' in the same sentence as the word 'community', but not linked ...

Geddit, William Carroll?