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Contiluo Posted 16 years ago
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(1) I saw a film on Animal Channel about a group of Greenpeace that fought to obstruct Japanese whalership whaling.

(2) The Japanese whalers, nominally do scientific research on whales, hunt and kill (battu) whales in antarctic ocean.

(3) The Japanese whalers palmed off scientific research inferior to hunt and kill whales in antarctic ocean.
  

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contiluo How to express the idea? Which is acceptable? What is the idea you are trying to express?

  • contiluo How to express the idea?
  • Which is acceptable?
  • What is the idea you are trying to express?
  • #1 is very different from both #2 and #3 which are similar.
  • Do you want suggestions on improving these sentences?
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contiluoHow to express the idea? Which is acceptable?
What is the idea you are trying to express? #1 is very different from both #2 and #3 which are similar. Do you want suggestions on improving these sentences?
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Hi,

A teacher suggests me that it might be more diplomatic NOT to mention the nationality of the whalers. This is a most sensitive issue. Everyone already knows their nationality. Therefore, #1 might be revised a bit as following:

I saw a film on the Animal Channel about the group Greenpeace, which fights to obstruct whalership whaling.

Besides, the original meaning o
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Hi contiluo;

A ship that hunts whales is called a whaler. The same term is also used for people who hunt whales.

Here is a better English version:

I saw a film on the Animal Channel about the group Greenpeace, which opposes whaling and actively obstructs whalers when they are out hunting whales in the Antarctic Ocean.

The whalers claim that they are wha

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