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Jingtian Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

The rank does not divide the priority.

Usually, in international conferences some VIPs are invited. Followed by the complete list of VIPs' names, sometimes "the rank does not divide the priority" is added in oder to avoid misunderstanding or unpleasantness of these VIPs.

May I ask is "the rank does not divide the priority" exactly what you use or are some other expressions?

Thanks.
  

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I've never heard this expression before and looked on google and yahoo. It came up with just a handful of examples and these all seemed to be from Chinese company use. As the phrase makes absolutely no sense whatsoever in English (I suspect they mean something along the lines of the order in which the names are listed does not reflect/denote their relative importance) I guess one person mistakenly created this phrase and a few others have copied it.

— Nona the brit

  • I've never heard this expression before and looked on google and yahoo.
  • It came up with just a handful of examples and these all seemed to be from Chinese company use.
  • As the phrase makes absolutely no sense whatsoever in English (I suspect they mean something along the lines of the order in which the names are listed does not reflect/denote their relative importance) I guess one person mistakenly created this phrase and a few others have copied it.
  • The simplest thing is either to arrange by some sort of ranking (which, yes, can cause difficulties where it is not clear-cut) or list everyone alphabetically.
  • You might see the phrase 'in no particular order' to give this meaning, but I would think that is a little too informal for an international conference.
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I've never heard this expression before and looked on google and yahoo. It came up with just a handful of examples and these all seemed to be from Chinese company use.

As the phrase makes absolutely no sense whatsoever in English (I suspect they mean something along the lines of the order in which the names are listed does not reflect/denote their relative importance) I guess one person m
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Nona The Brit
I've never heard this expression before and looked on google and yahoo. It came up with just a handful of examples and these all seemed to be from Chinese company use.

As the phrase makes absolutely no sense whatsoever in English (I suspect they mean something along the lines of the order in which the names are listed does not reflect/denote the
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Hi - I'm not Nona, obviously, but you can say simply "in alphabetical order." It would be assumed that it would be by last name, so there's no need to state that.
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Grammar GeekHi - I'm not Nona, obviously, but you can say simply "in alphabetical order." It would be assumed that it would be by last name, so there's no need to state that.

Thank you, Grammar Geek.

Of course you, and all others, are welcome to answer the question.

I got it.
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