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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
What does "The party sought to be praised" mean?
Does "The party sought to be praised" mean "The party which sought approval"? But what does "the party" refer to?
Context:
Around the 1950s, I got into the habit of referring to nice,attractive, cute young ladies as being chicks, referring to cute,
adorable baby chickys. It was an expression of admiration & approval.Around the 1980s, I encountered some insistent resistance to this from feministic acquaintances of mine in NY. I truthfully asserted that it was complimentary. Their (dispositive) counter-argument was: "well if u r doing it to be nice to us and we don 't like it, then Y do u DO it ?"
Thay deemed my praise to be insolence. Their refutation prevailed.
The party sought to be praised shud be the final authority qua whether intended praise is found by her to be offensive.
Accordingly, out of deference to their expressed wishes,I discontinued the practice. I note that some of them apply it
to themselves or to one another, anyway; but most of the time,I have tended to leave it alone. Substantively, I see nothing bad about it; it does not impugn their character nor suggest deficiency.The word certainly has no relation to ladies of the night nor does it relate to porn.
The word chick was applied mostly to girls in either high school or college or possibly in their 20s.
Context:
Around the 1950s, I got into the habit of referring to nice,attractive, cute young ladies as being chicks, referring to cute,
adorable baby chickys. It was an expression of admiration & approval.Around the 1980s, I encountered some insistent resistance to this from feministic acquaintances of mine in NY. I truthfully asserted that it was complimentary. Their (dispositive) counter-argument was: "well if u r doing it to be nice to us and we don 't like it, then Y do u DO it ?"
Thay deemed my praise to be insolence. Their refutation prevailed.
The party sought to be praised shud be the final authority qua whether intended praise is found by her to be offensive.
Accordingly, out of deference to their expressed wishes,I discontinued the practice. I note that some of them apply it
to themselves or to one another, anyway; but most of the time,I have tended to leave it alone. Substantively, I see nothing bad about it; it does not impugn their character nor suggest deficiency.The word certainly has no relation to ladies of the night nor does it relate to porn.
The word chick was applied mostly to girls in either high school or college or possibly in their 20s.
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e. in this case the young lady). I am not sure that it is exactly correct English.
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- in this case the young lady).
- I am not sure that it is exactly correct English.
- "shud" is just a typo for "should", but no doubt you realise this.
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"party" is sense 3 at http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/party:
A person or people forming one side in an agreement or dispute
I understand "The party sought to be praised" to mean "The party whom one seeks to praise" (i.e. in th
A person or people forming one side in an agreement or dispute
I understand "The party sought to be praised" to mean "The party whom one seeks to praise" (i.e. in th
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