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English 1b3 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Dignify that with a response

dignify= to raise the status of

I will not dignify/raise the status of your question by answering...

But I read recently,

The film will not dignify a response.

Is this also grammatical? If so, what does it mean? Doesn't seem to make sense to me

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The film will not dignify a response. I think the expression is used ill-advisedly. It makes no sense to me either.

— Avangi

  • The film will not dignify a response.
  • I think the expression is used ill-advisedly.
  • It makes no sense to me either.
  • I'd analyze it as a transformation of an idiom, which is a process that seldom works.
  • Edit.
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The film will not dignify a response.

I think the expression is used ill-advisedly. It makes no sense to me either.

I'd analyze it as a transformation of an idiom, which is a process that seldom works.

Edit. The more I read it the more I realize that it's not even a correct transformation.
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Agree, agree, agree. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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