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NL888 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Is "stretched" used properly here?
And is the usage "a chronicle foul breath and habitual bad mouth" okay?
Context:
I have to say it might not be right to disparage your fellow countrymen as "low creatures". They just have different minds than yours. Some of them may not know good manners; others may have a short temper and still others may simply have a chronicle foul breath and habitual bad mouth. If I use entirly Chinese on an infammable topic like the one we have here, I'm sure this post will end up into a showboat of thoses contentious foul mouths. And I'm also not sure how much my own temper can be streched. So I try to punctuate with a little bit English to stifle those bad-minded and filthy-mouthed. If they don't understand what's going on, nor do they know what to attack.
Context:
I have to say it might not be right to disparage your fellow countrymen as "low creatures". They just have different minds than yours. Some of them may not know good manners; others may have a short temper and still others may simply have a chronicle foul breath and habitual bad mouth. If I use entirly Chinese on an infammable topic like the one we have here, I'm sure this post will end up into a showboat of thoses contentious foul mouths. And I'm also not sure how much my own temper can be streched. So I try to punctuate with a little bit English to stifle those bad-minded and filthy-mouthed. If they don't understand what's going on, nor do they know what to attack.
Top answer
" "Stretched" is fine.
- " "Stretched" is fine.
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7 Answers
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I think you meant "others may simply have chronic foul breath and a habitual bad mouth."
"Stretched" is fine.
"Stretched" is fine.
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Hi,
foul breath It smells, bad.
a bad mouth Do you mean they use very profane or taboo words?
Stretched is OK here.
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Clive
foul breath It smells, bad.
a bad mouth Do you mean they use very profane or taboo words?
Stretched is OK here.
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Clive
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Does "stretch" here mean "verb, corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones"?
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No. You can stretch ground beef by adding Hamburger Helper. Your stretch is just a figurative use of the base definition, like you stretch a rubber band.
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So "how much my own temper can be streched" means "how much my own temper can be spread and improved"?
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No. Sorry. I had a feeling I was unclear there. One definition of "stretch", the one you quoted, is the Hamburger Helper one. Another is the one you used, the basic meaning of "stretch", to make larger and thinner by pulling. How much your temper can be stretched is how much patience you have, how much provocation it takes to make you angry. We even say "My patience is wearing thin."
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