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Conspicously absent?
Hi group,
In the swedish language we have an expression "att lysa med sin frånvaro" that is about someone or something being very obviosly not present. It tells of a luminous or brilliant absence. Like the would be main character who is not there. The expression is sometimes used also of a season, as when well in to June and summer has not yet arrived.
What is the english equivalent expression?
A friend of mine who is writing a doctors thesis asked me and I suggested "conspicously absent" but I am not sure if I just made that one up or if I had actually seen it somewhere.
Lars, Stockholm
In the swedish language we have an expression "att lysa med sin frånvaro" that is about someone or something being very obviosly not present. It tells of a luminous or brilliant absence. Like the would be main character who is not there. The expression is sometimes used also of a season, as when well in to June and summer has not yet arrived.
What is the english equivalent expression?
A friend of mine who is writing a doctors thesis asked me and I suggested "conspicously absent" but I am not sure if I just made that one up or if I had actually seen it somewhere.
Lars, Stockholm
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[nq:1]Hi group, In the swedish language we have an expression "att lysa med sin frånvaro" that is about someone or ... [/nq] There might be other ways of putting it, but "conspicuously absent" certainly sounds fine to me. Cheers, Harvey Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years; Southern England for the past 21 years.
- [nq:1]Hi group, In the swedish language we have an expression "att lysa med sin frånvaro" that is about someone or ...
- [/nq] There might be other ways of putting it, but "conspicuously absent" certainly sounds fine to me.
- Cheers, Harvey Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years; Southern England for the past 21 years.
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[nq:1]Hi group, In the swedish language we have an expression "att lysa med sin frånvaro" that is about someone or ... but I am not sure if I just made that one up or if I had actually seen it somewhere.[/nq]
There might be other ways of putting it, but "conspicuously absent" certainly sounds fine to me.
Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England for
There might be other ways of putting it, but "conspicuously absent" certainly sounds fine to me.
Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England for
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[nq:1]Hi group, In the swedish language we have an expression "att lysa med sin frånvaro" that is about someone or ... but I am not sure if I just made that one up or if I had actually seen it somewhere.[/nq]
Such phrasing exists. I think that I have heard it more often in a construction such as "he was conspicuous by his absence".
PB
Such phrasing exists. I think that I have heard it more often in a construction such as "he was conspicuous by his absence".
PB
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[nq:1]A friend of mine who is writing a doctors thesis asked me and I suggested "conspicously absent" but I am not sure if I just made that one up or if I had actually seen it somewhere.[/nq]
"Conspicuous by his absense" is a very common phrase.
Dena Jo
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"Conspicuous by his absense" is a very common phrase.
Dena Jo
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[nq:2]A friend of mine who is writing a doctors thesis ... one up or if I had actually seen it somewhere.[/nq]
[nq:1]"Conspicuous by his absense" is a very common phrase.[/nq]
Also with 'notable' in place of 'conspicuous'.
Regards
John
[nq:1]"Conspicuous by his absense" is a very common phrase.[/nq]
Also with 'notable' in place of 'conspicuous'.
Regards
John
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