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Sony2013 Posted 6 years ago
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From "Think Different" Apple Commercial

I can't get the meaning or the usage of "about" in the number 4.

Could you please explain about that? I would very much appreciate it

if you could give me an example. Plase help me.


(Think different Apple Commercial)

1. Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

2. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo.

3. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.

4. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward.

5. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

  

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sony2013 I can't get the meaning or the usage of "about" in the number 4. about = almost adverb 1b. almost / about starved / just about finished ( MW ) I can't agree with the Apple marketing department here, by the way.

  • sony2013 I can't get the meaning or the usage of "about" in the number 4.
  • about = almost adverb 1b.
  • almost / about starved / just about finished ( MW ) I can't agree with the Apple marketing department here, by the way.
  • People like that more often drag the human race down than push it forward.
  • But they are easily duped into buying overpriced electronic devices with proprietary technology by appealing to their delusions about themselves.
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sony2013I can't get the meaning or the usage of "about" in the number 4.

about = almost

adverb 1b. almost / about starved / just about finished (MW)

I can't agree with the Apple marketing department here, by the way. People like that more often drag the human race down than push it forward. But they are easily duped i

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