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Joe2012 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Regarding a right use of a word

Sentence: "Painful to see excellent columnist like him doing acts of fifth columns/fifth columnists in the name of freedom of expression"

My question/doubt: What would be the right choice of word in the above sentence, fifth columns or fifth columnists ?

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It needs more work than that, Razer: " It is painful to see an excellent journalist like him acting like a fifth columnist in the name of freedom of expression". )

— Mister Micawber

  • It needs more work than that, Razer: " It is painful to see an excellent journalist like him acting like a fifth columnist in the name of freedom of expression".
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It needs more work than that, Razer:

"It is painful to see an excellent journalist like him acting like a fifth columnist in the name of freedom of expression".

(I changed 'columnist' to 'journalist' for style-- to avoid using 'columnist' twice.)
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I thought he intentionally wanted to use 'columnist' twice so as to make a pun.
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If so, it doesn't work: it just makes the sentence clunky.
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I have a question though synonym of fifth columns is trojan horses according to the word web dictionary. What if we replace fifth columints with trojan horses ? Will it still make the sentence wrong ? Here it's for example : "It is painful to see an excellent journalist like him acting like a trojan horses in the name of freedom
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No, use your original sentence (corrected version).
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