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Hasibul Alam Posted 11 years ago
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can you bisect this sentence? ``Despite protestations to the contrary`` what is this means? here dated means previous?

Despite protestations to the contrary, Peyermessen had clearly lifted complete sections of text from works that, while dated, were not unknown to specialists in the field, who accused him of plagiarism
  

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Hasibul Alam can you bisect this sentence? 'Bisect' means to 'cut into two equal pieces'. I can do that: (1) Despite protestations to the contrary, Peyermessen had clearly lifted complete sections of text from / (2) works that, while dated, were not unknown to specialists in the field, who accused him of plagiarism.

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  • Hasibul Alam can you bisect this sentence?
  • 'Bisect' means to 'cut into two equal pieces'.
  • I can do that: (1) Despite protestations to the contrary, Peyermessen had clearly lifted complete sections of text from / (2) works that, while dated, were not unknown to specialists in the field, who accused him of plagiarism.
  • If you have further questions, please include them in the body of your post; long subject lines become difficult to read or illegible.
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Hasibul Alamcan you bisect this sentence?
'Bisect' means to 'cut into two equal pieces'. I can do that:

(1) Despite protestations to the contrary, Peyermessen had clearly lifted complete sections of text from /
(2) works that,while dated, were not unknown to specialists in the field, who accused him of plagiarism.

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thnx for bisecting, now plz postmortem the sentence
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Hasibul Alamfrom works that, while dated, were not unknown
dated ~ out of date ~ not up to date ~ old

CJ
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Hasibul AlamDespite protestations to the contrary
~ Even though some people very strongly expressed their opinion that it wasn't true

CJ
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Hasibul Alamthnx for bisecting, now plz postmortem the sentence
All sentences should begin with a capital letter. Please use full forms (please, thanks) in this forum.
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