A setting that resembled more intimate addresses
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Below is a passage from a newspaper article:
Dressed in a Western style suit, Kim spoke from a dark leather armchair in an office lined with packed bookshelves and paintings of his father, Kim Jong Il, and grandfather Kim Il Sung — a setting that resembled more intimate addresses from the White House by the U.S. president.
In it, I don't quite understand what the part after the dash means. Could you please paraphrase it in a simpler expression?
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The writer flubbed that a bit. The setting did not resemble other addresses, it resembled the setting for other addresses. Here is your paraphrase (it is not meant to be good writing): — the scene that Kim surrounded himself with looked like the scene that an American president might use for an address from the White House, and address that would be more intimate than Kim's.
- The writer flubbed that a bit.
- The setting did not resemble other addresses, it resembled the setting for other addresses.
- Here is your paraphrase (it is not meant to be good writing): — the scene that Kim surrounded himself with looked like the scene that an American president might use for an address from the White House, and address that would be more intimate than Kim's.
- I do not know what the writer means by "intimate" here.
- S.
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The writer flubbed that a bit. The setting did not resemble other addresses, it resembled the setting for other addresses. Here is your paraphrase (it is not meant to be good writing):
—the scene that Kim surrounded himself with looked like the scene that an American president might use for an address from the White House, and address that would be more intimate than Kim's.
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