Insgroupsto?

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Does it mean "In order to"?I can't check it from any dictionary.

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[nq:1]Does it mean "In order to"? I can't check it from any dictionary.[/nq]
Is this a word you only heard, or have you read it somewhere? It appears to contain more than one typo, and possibly needs separation into a number of words.
More info is needed for guessing at a correct word or determining meaning from context.

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[nq:1]Does it mean "In order to"? I can't check it from any dictionary.[/nq]
This is not English, i.e. is probably an
error in spelling or transcription.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)

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[nq:2]Does it mean "In order to"? I can't check it from any dictionary.[/nq]
[nq:1]This is not English, i.e. is probably an error in spelling or transcription.[/nq]
It's more than that... Try searching for it on Google!

Adrian

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[nq:2]This is not English, i.e. is probably an error in spelling or transcription.[/nq]
[nq:1]It's more than that... Try searching for it on Google![/nq]
Why should we care what a bunch of *.cn writers clog their pseudo-English writing with?

Martin Ambuhl

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[nq:2]It's more than that... Try searching for it on Google![/nq]
[nq:1]Why should we care what a bunch of *.cn writers clog their pseudo-English writing with?[/nq]
If you haven't got anything useful to say...
Adrian

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[nq:1]If you haven't got anything useful to say...[/nq]
say it in AUE.

PB
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[nq:2]This is not English, i.e. is probably an error in spelling or transcription.[/nq]
[nq:1]It's more than that... Try searching for it on Google![/nq]
Yes! There's a mystery here! Maybe something like the "aquatinted" for "acquainted" error (a spelling checker substitution). Maybe something related to those darn "smart curly quotes" and font substitution. Maybe in a Chinese translation program?
Here's a passage. Note another, similar problem of in the second line.
We have split the relationships in 'The Emotional
Make-up of China's Entrepreneurs'sintosfour
categories: relationships with the spouse, friends, close family and their country. How have these
relationships played upon our entrepreneurs'
careers? The private sector continues to play an
ever-important role in Mainland China's economy. It follows that, insgroupsto make an assessment of
thefuture of the economy, we need to understand the role of the private sector; insgroupsto understand the role of the private sector, we need to
understand its top entrepreneurs. To understand the cause and effect of their relationships is to
understand an entrepreneur's fundamental make-up.
It looks* like "insgroupsto" is being used to mean "in order to," do others agree? *Why that should be is still a mystery.

Here's another one from another Chinese-based page:
49. What do you think needs to be done insgroupstorelieve the farmer¡-s worries?
"In order to" certainly fits. Now, why should this happen?

Oh, perhaps it's related to the fact that in a certain sense, "order" can mean "group." But not the most common meaning.

So, if (1) "group" mistakenly replaced "order" and (2) S's surrounded the word because of some technical problem...
If "Ieyasu" (Email Removed) is still there, could you tell us exactly where you found this word? On Web pages only? English pages produced by Chinese speakers? Anywhere else? Do Chinese speakers producing English pages use tools like spellcheckers and translators?

Best Donna Richoux

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[nq:2]This is not English, i.e. is probably an error in spelling or transcription.[/nq]
[nq:1]It's more than that... Try searching for it on Google![/nq]
The websites are obviously victims of their owners' spell-checker, or they are global-change tragedies.
Someone has perpetrated a mechanical replacement of "in order to" by "ingroupsto".
Gary

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[nq:2]This is not English, i.e. is probably an error in spelling or transcription.[/nq]
[nq:1]It's more than that... Try searching for it on Google![/nq]
The websites google finds are obviously the victims of a spell-checker tragedy or a global-replace in a word processor.
Somebody changed "in order to" to ingroupsto, and the other Chinese who copied the page without reading it blindly copied the error also.

It's really quite funny.
Gary

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[nq:2]This is not English, i.e. is probably an error in spelling or transcription.[/nq]
[nq:1]It's more than that... Try searching for it on Google![/nq]
It is not English, but it is found in more than 1500 pages found by Google. All or most of them seem to contain Asian pictographic writing; whether it is Japanese I cannot tell.

I suspect this is one of those weird software glitches perpetrated by Hotmail (or was it Yahoo), which causes "medieval" to become "medireview". Do a Google search on "medireview" and you find it in pages whose authors intended "medieval" and did not know that the software changed what they wrote (I exchanged some email with one of those authors, a historian of medieval Europe, who was unaware that his CV on the web contained the word "medireview" where he had written "medieval"). In the same way, the French word "cheval" (horse) becomes "chreview".
I think this is gross malpractice on the part of Hotmail or Yahoo or whoever it was. Mike Hardy

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