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Antonia Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Patents

How do you see a school that is more geared toward turning out patents than socially evolved men and women.

Students = patents, they are nothing but mere patents of it's school that is only going to exploit its products?
  

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Hello Antonia I don't quite follow the question – are you able to paraphrase it? Sorry! MrP

— MrPedantic

  • Hello Antonia I don't quite follow the question – are you able to paraphrase it?
  • Sorry!
  • MrP
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Hello Antonia

I don't quite follow the question – are you able to paraphrase it?

Sorry!

MrP
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Hi,
I meant to ask: Could you explain the sentence,

school that is more geared toward turning out patents than socially evolved men and women

Thanks
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Hello Antonia

I'm still having a little trouble. Here's the definition of 'patent' from Merriam-Webster:

Main Entry: pat·ent
Function: noun
1 : an official document conferring a right or privilege : LETTERS PATENT
2 a : a writing securing to an inventor for a term of years the exclusive right to make, use, or sell an invention b : the monopoly or right so gran
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you know what? I've just realized it was a stupid question, because I thought that the word patent here relates in some weird metaphorical sense to students, but it doesn't. Sorry, Mr Pedantic, (as you can see I'm not pedantic at all) - sorry once again and thank you anyway
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No problem at all, Antonia!

I too had begun to inch my way nervously along the murky pathway of metaphor. I'm relieved to discover I can turn back now.

MrP
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Emotion: smilemurky Such a lovely word!
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