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Mr. Tom Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Please don't laugh hollowly; you're betraying yourself.

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Is this sentence OK (natural)?

Please don't laugh hollowly; you're betraying yourself.

Tom
  

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Hi, It's perhaps a little too stylish to be completely natural. But it's OK. Obviously, it needs to be said in a context.

— Clive

  • Hi, It's perhaps a little too stylish to be completely natural.
  • But it's OK.
  • Obviously, it needs to be said in a context.
  • Clive
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Hi,



It's perhaps a little too stylish to be completely natural.

But it's OK.



Obviously, it needs to be said in a context.



Clive
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Please don't laugh hollowly; you're betraying yourself.


I've never heard it as an imperative.

Perhaps without the "Please," it would work as a caution to an actor by the director.

Or, it might work in a private conversation, in which A is cr
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Mr. TomIs this sentence OK (natural)?
Not as dialogue, except maybe 200 years ago. My impression is that it is not at all natural in modern English.

CJ
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