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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
asking to be witnessed
1. what does the highlighted sentence what to say? What is that disapproval? Does " asking to be witnessed" mean "asking people to merely watch them and think about them instead of rapidly condemning them"?
context:
Where graffiti may be viewed as radically creative as opposed to inanely destructive, however, is in its choice of location and its desire to be witnessed rather than merely condemned, though asking to be witnessed arguably still carries with it a necessary element of disapproval.
context:
Where graffiti may be viewed as radically creative as opposed to inanely destructive, however, is in its choice of location and its desire to be witnessed rather than merely condemned, though asking to be witnessed arguably still carries with it a necessary element of disapproval.
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Hi There is some graffiti you may notice and you think: someone's gone to a lot a trouble there. At the time, they were not bothered whether I would see it or not. It's just done because it is interesting On the other hand, there is graffiti that is really only saying: I have scrawled on this wall and I bet you disapprove of this The second kind is asking to be witnessed and, it seems, asking for disapproval Dave
- Hi There is some graffiti you may notice and you think: someone's gone to a lot a trouble there.
- At the time, they were not bothered whether I would see it or not.
- It's just done because it is interesting On the other hand, there is graffiti that is really only saying: I have scrawled on this wall and I bet you disapprove of this The second kind is asking to be witnessed and, it seems, asking for disapproval Dave
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Hi
There is some graffiti you may notice and you think: someone's gone to a lot a trouble there. At the time, they were not bothered whether I would see it or not. It's just done because it is interesting
On the other hand, there is graffiti that is really only saying: I have scrawled on this wall and I bet you disapprove of this
The second kind is asking to be witness
There is some graffiti you may notice and you think: someone's gone to a lot a trouble there. At the time, they were not bothered whether I would see it or not. It's just done because it is interesting
On the other hand, there is graffiti that is really only saying: I have scrawled on this wall and I bet you disapprove of this
The second kind is asking to be witness
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I think it is supposed to mean that the word "witnessed" has a nuance that the witnesser disapproves of what he or she sees. I'm not sure that the words written exactly say this though.
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