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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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is my approach right?
0 Hi, 02 br
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00 Whenver I see some sentential constructions that seem a little foreign or strange to me, I tend to replace some parts that are confusing with some simpler words that have worked in the past. Is that the right practice? 02 br
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01 i 00 This poor guy has a weakness for decadence. 02 i 02 br
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00 Since I don't know whether it is structured right, before I can go anywhere with the sentence, to check for structual accuracy, I tend to replace it with some simpler words that worked in the past. 02 br
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01 i 00 The poor guy has a weakness for badness. 02 i 02 br
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00 Now, I am comfortable with this so I assume the previous one is structually sound too. 02 br
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00 Is my approach workable universally(all the time)?? 0-
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00 Whenver I see some sentential constructions that seem a little foreign or strange to me, I tend to replace some parts that are confusing with some simpler words that have worked in the past. Is that the right practice? 02 br
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01 i 00 This poor guy has a weakness for decadence. 02 i 02 br
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00 Since I don't know whether it is structured right, before I can go anywhere with the sentence, to check for structual accuracy, I tend to replace it with some simpler words that worked in the past. 02 br
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01 i 00 The poor guy has a weakness for badness. 02 i 02 br
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00 Now, I am comfortable with this so I assume the previous one is structually sound too. 02 br
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00 Is my approach workable universally(all the time)?? 0-
Top answer
0 I think your approach is not so good as it seems to you. 0-
- 0 I think your approach is not so good as it seems to you.
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0 I think your approach is not so good as it seems to you. Replacing words like "decadence" with more simple and general words may change the meaning of a sentence or can even lead it to ambiguous meaning. 0-
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0 First, I don't think such replacements help understand the structure. In most cases structure can be grasped even if some words in the sentence are not familliar to the reader. 02 br
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00 I wouldn't say this works universally because you risk to perform an incorrect substitution that will make the sentence incorrect. 02 br
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00 In any case, with the same
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00 I wouldn't say this works universally because you risk to perform an incorrect substitution that will make the sentence incorrect. 02 br
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00 In any case, with the same
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0 Hi, 02 br
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00 What I am doing is not replacing words like 'decadence' with any simple or general words but with the ones that are of the same grammartical element: decadence is an abstract uncountable noun so I replace with a very similar abstract uncountable noun that I can come up with which is 'badness'. All in all, what I am doing or trying to do is replace them careful
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00 What I am doing is not replacing words like 'decadence' with any simple or general words but with the ones that are of the same grammartical element: decadence is an abstract uncountable noun so I replace with a very similar abstract uncountable noun that I can come up with which is 'badness'. All in all, what I am doing or trying to do is replace them careful
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0 Even if to fit words very thoroughly, that's at least redundant work. Since such accurate replacement requires you to translate the original word first, why bother? 0-
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