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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

meaning of "do you recognize yourself"

Hi! I wrote the script of a video but Im not english, and I received some critics from a native english speaker, that my script contained grammar mistake. Could somebody check it for me? The text is the following:
" Discipline.... Endurance... Power... Do you recognize yourself?"
My intention was to ask whether the listener finds the first three qualities in himself, but maybe I should have used: "Do you find theese in yourself?" I Don't know... Do you think the first version makes sense too? Thanks a lot for helping me I feel myself embarrassed..
  

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Anonymous " Discipline.... Endurance... Power...

  • Anonymous " Discipline....
  • Endurance...
  • Power...
  • " This is creative --- poetic.
  • In my opinion, it's fine.
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Anonymous" Discipline.... Endurance... Power... Do you recognize yourself?"
This is creative --- poetic. In my opinion, it's fine.
I suppose you could silence your critics with, "Do you recognize any of these in yourself?"

We find things like,
Discipline.....Endurance.....Power.....Is this you?
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Thank you. Maybe I rewrite it later. But does the first version make sense anyway or it is incorrect?
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Your version does make sense, but it is not very clear. You need a relative pronoun in the second sentence to link the ideas together.

" Discipline.... Endurance... Power... Do you recognize these in yourself?"
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Thank you! Can you check the video itself? The text is in its first 15 seconds. While we listen to the text, we see a guy doing exercises. So the question "Do you recognize yourself?" could refer a little to the guy too. I had to use short "calling" words, in order to make the video interesting. It is about bodyguard training, and we think that if someone recognizes himself in theese "calling" wor

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