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Tyomyeky Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
“Next time, go over to the highway and get Anderson to ring the fire bell for you”
A policeman gives advice to some Amish guy who had problems with calling the police:
“Next time, go over to the highway and get Anderson to ring the fire bell for you”.
Is ‘Anderson’ a person or a city in this sentence? It’s important in my translation. I think it's a person, but I'm not sure.
“Next time, go over to the highway and get Anderson to ring the fire bell for you”.
Is ‘Anderson’ a person or a city in this sentence? It’s important in my translation. I think it's a person, but I'm not sure.
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My guess is that if you look at the entire context you will discover if it's a person or a place. Whichever, it sounds to me as if the policeman is being very disrespectful of the Amish community.
- My guess is that if you look at the entire context you will discover if it's a person or a place.
- Whichever, it sounds to me as if the policeman is being very disrespectful of the Amish community.
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My guess is that if you look at the entire context you will discover if it's a person or a place. Whichever, it sounds to me as if the policeman is being very disrespectful of the Amish community.
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tyomyekyActually, this is the entire context.If it is the entire context then the only explanation is that you wrote these lines yourself " A policeman gives advice to some Amish guy who had problems with calling the police: “Next time, go over to the highway and get Anderson to ring the fire bell for you”."
Otherwise there has to be some form of con
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