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Bintangputra Posted 3 years ago
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"Back in Hollywood in a few weeks, I was discouraged to find yet another putative director wandering about in the Cowan offices, also unpaid."

Please help me to understand what the sentence means. My take is that he assumed the director to be unpaid

  

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Bintangputra Please help me to understand what the sentence means. My take is that he assumed the director to be unpaid I doubt that he assumed it. He probably asked him or overheard him complaining or something.

  • Bintangputra Please help me to understand what the sentence means.
  • My take is that he assumed the director to be unpaid I doubt that he assumed it.
  • He probably asked him or overheard him complaining or something.
  • I can't tell out of context whether "also" means that Miller himself had not been paid or that some director other than this putative one had not been paid.
  • As it stands, I take it to mean Miller.
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BintangputraPlease help me to understand what the sentence means. My take is that he assumed the director to be unpaid

I doubt that he assumed it. He probably asked him or overheard him complaining or something. I can't tell out of context whether "also" means that Miller himself had not been paid or that some director other than this putative one had not b

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