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I asked myself how I would say "Everybody but me..." e.g. "Everybody but me
ate fish".

At first I thought of 私以外の人はみんな... which is a phrase that seems to occur often
on Google. Then I thought that maybe I could contract it to 私以外のみんなは...which
does appear on Google but is much less popular.

1) Is 私以外の人はみんな...natural in this context

2) Is 私以外のみんなは... wrong? And, why? If it's not wrong is there a difference
between the two?
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How to say "Everyone but me ..."
Both expressions sound very natural and I can't think of any significant
semantic differences between those two.

Technically, additional "人は" is scoping what みんな refers to. For example,
consider 私以外の女性はみんな. But 人 is as broad a class as it gets, so in this instance
it's not adding no value.
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I think this is simply a reflection of how Japanese people prefer adverbial
expressions to describe the quantity of things.

  * [Positioning of quantities (using counters)](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/8136/5010)
  * [How to list numbers of things](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/17816/5010)

Semantically they are almost interchangeable, but 私以外のみんな tends to refer to a
definite group of people (e.g., "all of _the_ remaining seven people
(excluding me)", " _the_ rest of us"), whereas 私以外の人はみんな tends to refer to
indefinite people (e.g., "everyone (living in Japan) except me").
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