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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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Is this valid American: "the situation invited me to do so" ?

0Hi!02br
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00I have a question concerning an expression I've tried to translate from Swedish.02br
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00Is this American?:02br
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00"the situation invited me to do so"02br
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00Example: Let's consider I receive a lot of junk email. Then I would say: The situation invited me to be very careful to which mailing list I would subscribe.02br
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00Thank you0-
  

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0Hi,02br 02br 00It's a little unusual, but it seems acceptable to me . 02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive0-

— Clive

  • 0Hi,02br 02br 00It's a little unusual, but it seems acceptable to me .
  • 02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive0-
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0Hi,02br
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00It's a little unusual, but it seems acceptable to me . In context, the meaning would be clear.02br
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00Best wishes, Clive0-
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0 I would have said it as follows:02br
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01i00The situation led me to be very careful about which mailing lists I would subscribe to.02br
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00 In place of 01i00led02i00, I might have used 01i00prompted02i00, 01i00influenced02i00, or 01i00motivated02i
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0I read the two posts by gurus and wish to add that the expression "the situation invited me to do so" seems pretty American and might say the sentence like this:02br
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01i00The situation led me to be very careful the mailing list that I 00would00 put my name to.02i02br
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01u00Subscribing to the mailing list02u0
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0Sorry, there was a word misssing in the sentence I wrote.02br
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00The recommended sentence by me is this:02br
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01i00The situation led me to be very careful about the mailing list that I would put my name on.02i02br
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00Some other sentences that I might be inclined to suggest are the following: 02br
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