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Kekel Posted 19 years ago
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antlike ??

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00"01i00Men seemed to have shrunk in stature before the vastness of the mechanical contrivances they had invented - men had become 01b00antlike02b00,02i00 " wrote Dos Passos in his novel 01i00Three Soldiers02i00.02br
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0It means like an ant - small and insignificant compared to the things they've invented. 0-

— Tidus

  • 0It means like an ant - small and insignificant compared to the things they've invented.
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0It means like an ant - small and insignificant compared to the things they've invented. 02br
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00Are you sure 'contrivances' is the correct word to be using and not, perhaps, 'contraptions'?0-
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0 It is right, I wrote it the same way I found in the book.02br
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00Thanks for the explanation, Tidus (I should have predicted it, anyway 05000...)010id6
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01cite10Tidus12cite10It means like an ant - small and insignificant compared to the things they've invented. 12br
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10Are you sure 'contrivances' is the correct word to be using and not, perhaps, 'contraptions'?12br
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10Pretty similar to me, synonyms in the M-W dictionary. 0
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