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Hi,

I have the following sentence:
"Each element of the guide is intended to stand alone. This leads to some repetition – meeting organizers will find the heart felt cry for cherry pickers and plenty of trolleys familiar"

Does :
"meeting organizers will find the heart felt cry for cherry pickers and plenty of trolleys familiar"

means that organizers would love to pick some of the useful parts and remove what they know ?

GPY · Accepted Answer

More context is needed in order to determine whether or not this is meant literally. What is going on? What is the guide talking about? What sort of meetings is it referring to?

Orim · Answer

This is a whole paragraph

OVERVIEW AND DEFINITIONS
Each element of the guide is intended to stand alone. This leads to some repetition – meeting
organizers will find the heart felt cry for cherry pickers and plenty of trolleys familiar, whilst others
will find the duplication repetitive. The authors had the option of referring to each essential of
desirable element only once and cross referencing it, but believe that it may be easier for users of
the guide to find a comprehensive statement of what is required set out in each element.

Thanks

CalifJim · Answer

orimmeeting organizers will find the heart felt cry for cherry pickers and plenty of trolleys familiar, whilst others will find the duplication repetitive.

I find this incomprehensible. It seems to be saying that people who are not meeting organizers will find the duplication repetitive, but meeting organizers presumably won't find the duplication repetitive, and may even like it.

The questions that come up are:

1. Why are meeting organizers singled out for mention? Is this a text directed at meeting organizers?
2. Does the sentence really mean that meeting organizers won't mind the duplication? And if so, why would that be?
3. In what way does finding certain things familiar (the cry for cherry pickers, many trolleys) communicate an acceptance of duplication?
4. What metaphors does the author believe the reader is familiar with concerning these strange items (cherry pickers, trolleys)? (It seems that the introduction of such oddities into the text must be metaphoric.)

CJ

GPY · Answer

CalifJim4. What metaphors does the author believe the reader is familiar with concerning these strange items (cherry pickers, trolleys)? (It seems that the introduction of such oddities into the text must be metaphoric.)

I suspect it is actually literal. The source document which I found at the link below seems to be talking about organising events at large venues. It talks about provision of trolleys, hoists, etc., so presumably "cherry-pickers" means the hydraulic platforms. I would guess, anyway.

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/132402681/Planning-a-Conference-Centre

CalifJim · Answer

GPYI suspect it is actually literal. The source document which I found at the link below seems to be talking about organising events at large venues. It talks about provision of trolleys, hoists, etc., so presumably "cherry-pickers" means the hydraulic platforms. I would guess, anyway.

I see. It certainly would have been helpful and saved time if the OP had supplied this information.

Still, the sentence seems to contrast the reaction to duplication in terms of whether the reader is a meeting organizer or not, seeming to say that meeting organizers might like the duplication and others, not. I don't understand that any more than the OP does. Any ideas?

CJ

GPY · Answer

CalifJimAny ideas?

Not really, I'm afraid. It doesn't seem very coherent to me.

Orim · Answer

Sorry next time I'll send whole paragraph and the link. So to sum up: Meeting organizers will like the repetition and other don't ?

CalifJim · Answer

orimSo to sum up: Meeting organizers will like the repetition and other don't?

That's what I get from it. Yes.

CJ

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