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Cadzao Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
calling names
Charles Morris wrote:
"Einstein and his fellow scientists hand banded together to warn us that modern warfare is fatal to modern culture, and the military men acknowledge this truth. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's words should be emphatic enough: "The governments of the world will find some way to substitute the council table for the battlefield or within the measurable future civilization as we know it will cease to exist." Hysteria, self-righteousness, and calling names will not save us. Nor the atom bomb. Nor the enjoyment of the bees and butterflies of our individual selves. Our social inventiveness must embrace and outpace our physical inventions. If it does not, the people of other continents may still have a chance to do better."
1. What does "calling names" mean in the context?
2. What does the author mean by the blue sentence?
Please help.
Thank you.
Cadzao
"Einstein and his fellow scientists hand banded together to warn us that modern warfare is fatal to modern culture, and the military men acknowledge this truth. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's words should be emphatic enough: "The governments of the world will find some way to substitute the council table for the battlefield or within the measurable future civilization as we know it will cease to exist." Hysteria, self-righteousness, and calling names will not save us. Nor the atom bomb. Nor the enjoyment of the bees and butterflies of our individual selves. Our social inventiveness must embrace and outpace our physical inventions. If it does not, the people of other continents may still have a chance to do better."
1. What does "calling names" mean in the context?
2. What does the author mean by the blue sentence?
Please help.
Thank you.
Cadzao
Top answer
calling names: insulting one another. -- You're an idiot! -- Well you're a jerk!
- calling names: insulting one another.
- -- You're an idiot!
- -- Well you're a jerk!
- -- Well you're worse than a jerk.
- You're a buffoon!
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calling names: insulting one another.
-- You're an idiot!
-- Well you're a jerk!
-- Well you're worse than a jerk. You're a buffoon!
Here, idiot, jerk, and buffoon are the 'names' that the participants in the argument are being 'called'.
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Literally, the sentence in blue says that our personal enjoyment of the bees and butterf
-- You're an idiot!
-- Well you're a jerk!
-- Well you're worse than a jerk. You're a buffoon!
Here, idiot, jerk, and buffoon are the 'names' that the participants in the argument are being 'called'.
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Literally, the sentence in blue says that our personal enjoyment of the bees and butterf
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