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Soheil1 Posted 9 years ago
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Not so much
Hi
What does 'not so much' mean?
we as ethnomusicologists have come together not so much as a conference but rather as a group of scholars talking among ourselves[...]
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not so much as X but rather as Y It means that the description Y mainly applies, and the description X applies to a lesser extent. It is a less clear-cut version of "not as X but rather as Y".
- not so much as X but rather as Y It means that the description Y mainly applies, and the description X applies to a lesser extent.
- It is a less clear-cut version of "not as X but rather as Y".
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not so much as X but rather as Y
It means that the description Y mainly applies, and the description X applies to a lesser extent. It is a less clear-cut version of "not as X but rather as Y".
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