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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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unnecessary words

0Please tell me if the words unerlined are unnecessary. If they are, please tell me how I can fix them, especially for the second sentence.02br
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001. They are disposing 01u00of02u00 these things in our front lawns.02br
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002. I think I am good and here are the reasons 01u00why02u00. 0-
  

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0Hi,02br 02br 01font 00Please tell me if the words unerlined are unnecessary. 02font 02br 02br 01font 001. 02br 02br 01font 002.

— Clive

  • 0Hi,02br 02br 01font 00Please tell me if the words unerlined are unnecessary.
  • 02font 02br 02br 01font 001.
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  • I think I am good and here are the reasons 01u 00why02u 00.
  • 02font 00You can omit 'why', because the word 'reason' itself includes the concept of 'why'.
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0Hi,02br
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01font00Please tell me if the words unerlined are unnecessary. If they are, please tell me how I can fix them, especially for the second sentence.02font02br
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01font001. They are disposing 01u00of02u00 these things in our front lawns.02font00
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0 1 — not redundant for sure. "Dispose of" is like "get rid of", while "dispose" implies a kind of destruction.02br
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00 2 — although "why" is considered undesired in constructions like "the reason why I love you", in your example "why" sounds good to me, so I think it is neither wrong nor unnecessary...02br
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00 EDIT: Clive: or does it happen on
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0Hi again,02br
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01font00does it happen only in programming that "dispose" means destroy and takes no prepositions??02font02br
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00I've never encountered this usage.05002br
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00There is a well-known saying that 01i00man proposes, but *** disposes.02i00
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0 Well, I mean there's the dispose(pointer) function in Pascal that releases the memory which was previously allocated with the new(pointer) function. And some OO-languages provide the dispose() method for destroying an object: a = getSomeThing;02br
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0 «There is a well-known saying that man proposes, but *** disposes.»02br
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00 Hmmm! We have exactly the same proverb, I mean literally the same:02br
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00  Man		pro~	~poses,		***	dis~	~poses  Chelovek	pred~	~polagaet,	Bog	ras~	~polagaet  02pre
00 Ain't that fun? 0-
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0There must be hundreds of those "exact equivalent" 'prefix + root' patterns in Russian, but I hadn't heard of an entire proverb like that. 05002br
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0 The whole point of computer code is brevity. The meaning of 01i00dispose(01b00a02b00)02i00 is simply "Dispose 01u00of02u00 01b00a02b00".02br
00CJ 0-
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0Hi02br
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00Every computer language follows its own syntactical rules, and these are not the standard grammar of the English language.05002br
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00Best wishes, Clive010id1
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0In view of it, I think I should post some Perl poetry:02br
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00  #!/usr/bin/perl    APPEAL:    listen (please, please);    open yourself, wide;      join (you, me),  connect (us,together),    tell me.    do something if distressed;        @dawn, dance;      @evening, sing;      read (books,$poems,stories) until peaceful;      study if able;        write me i
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