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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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Please help me to understand a sentence.
I’m not sure whether my understanding of the following sentence is correct or not, so would you please help me to understand it correctly?Their speaking language in this sentence is English.Sentence;They talked about topics so erudite they might as well have been speaking another language.My Understanding;Their conversation topics were so erudite.So their speaking language was as if another country’s language even though it was English.
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Yes, that is right. The writer means that the speakers used such unusual vocabulary that s/he did not understand them: it was like an unfamiliar foreign language.
- Yes, that is right.
- The writer means that the speakers used such unusual vocabulary that s/he did not understand them: it was like an unfamiliar foreign language.
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Yes, that is right. The writer means that the speakers used such unusual vocabulary that s/he did not understand them: it was like an unfamiliar foreign language.
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