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IAmWithName2 Posted 5 years ago
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Meaning of 'suspend': how temporary is it?

When I saw that Donald Trump's Twitter account was 'suspended', I assumed that was a temporary thing. According to Collins dictionary to suspend means 'to render inoperative or cause to cease, esp. temporarily'.

However, our national newspapers translate it along the lines of "the account has been banned definitively". (That's a back-translation, which is a scientifically doubtful procedure, but I hope you can get the gist).

I suppose these newspapers are right, but how can we identify whether 'suspend' is used in its more temporary or its more definitive meaning?

Regards, IAm

  

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IAmWithName2 According to Collins dictionary to suspend means 'to render inoperative or cause to cease, esp. temporarily'. This is a good reason to stop using Collins.

— Anonymous

  • IAmWithName2 According to Collins dictionary to suspend means 'to render inoperative or cause to cease, esp.
  • temporarily'.
  • This is a good reason to stop using Collins.
  • It only means temporarily.
  • And it is not clear what is meant by "definitively" in your translation.
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IAmWithName2According to Collins dictionary to suspend means 'to render inoperative or cause to cease, esp. temporarily'.

This is a good reason to stop using Collins. It only means temporarily. And it is not clear what is meant by "definitively" in your translation. If an account is suspended, it has been rendered inactive for an undetermined period of time

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IAmWithName2When I saw that Donald Trump's Twitter account was 'suspended', I assumed that was a temporary thing.

It was originally a temporary decision.

After the chaos and the insurrection, Twitter decided to make it permanent.

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