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Soheil1 Posted 5 years ago
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Construction

Hi

Does construction mean labeling in:

the globalization of poverty entailed by the construction of two-thirds of the world as poor after 1945

? Thanks in advance

  

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I found the pdf this is from (which you should have said), and his English is very, very bad. Just get what you can out of it. There is no point in trying to guess what such a writer means.

  • I found the pdf this is from (which you should have said), and his English is very, very bad.
  • Just get what you can out of it.
  • There is no point in trying to guess what such a writer means.
  • He was trying to use "construction" as the noun form of "construe", but you can't construe people as poor.
  • It is a wrong word.
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I found the pdf this is from (which you should have said), and his English is very, very bad. Just get what you can out of it. There is no point in trying to guess what such a writer means. He was trying to use "construction" as the noun form of "construe", but you can't construe people as poor. It is a wrong word.

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