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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Does "has yet to catch on" mean "has yet to become popular"?
Context:
Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett stand out as articulate academics who expend considerable energies to explain and extend Darwinism, proclaiming that an acceptance of evolution in biology requires an acceptance of atheism in theology. In a remarkable marketing ploy, they and their colleagues in the atheist community have also attempted to promote the term "bright" as an alternative to "atheist." (The implied corollary, that believers must be "dim," may be one good reason why the term has yet to catch on.) Certainly, their hostility to belief is undisguised. How did we get here?
Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett stand out as articulate academics who expend considerable energies to explain and extend Darwinism, proclaiming that an acceptance of evolution in biology requires an acceptance of atheism in theology. In a remarkable marketing ploy, they and their colleagues in the atheist community have also attempted to promote the term "bright" as an alternative to "atheist." (The implied corollary, that believers must be "dim," may be one good reason why the term has yet to catch on.) Certainly, their hostility to belief is undisguised. How did we get here?
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has yet to become accepted
- has yet to become accepted
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