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Taka Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Sound

If you have the guitar repaired, I think it will produce beautiful sounds again.

If it were "make" instead of "produce" as this, would it still sound OK and make the same sense?

If you have the guitar repaired, I think it will make beautiful sounds again.
  

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To my mind, 'produce' here has a nuance of 'bring into existence with some effort', while 'make' is more matter of fact.

Perhaps I am just being subjective.

Clive
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Interesting. But both of them work nonetheless, right?
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Do you mean in terms of unnuanced language?
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I'm just wondering whether that difference in nuance really matters here and whether they both sound OK aside from that difference.
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Neither sounds wrong.
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Good.

Just out of interest, when you say "bring into existence with some effort", do you mean that if you play the guitar even after having it repaired, you may still need to make some effort to make beautiful sounds with the guitar?
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Do you think one can produce beautiful sounds from a guitar without some effort?
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Maybe, if it was a famous instrument, compared to a chap one, I guess. But that is not the point.

What I'm asking is, compared to "If you have the guitar repaired, I think it will make beautiful sounds again", do you think If you have the guitar repaired, I think it will produce beautiful sounds again" has a stronger implication that it still won't be so easy to make beautif
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