Who know it best as the grandest or most of anything
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Enough superlatives. They mislead. The Chesapeake does not impress those who know it best as the grandest or most of anything. For all its size and gross statistics, it is an intimate place where land and water intertwine in infinite varieties of mood and pattern.
William Warner, Beautiful Swimmers: Waterman, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
How can I interpet the part in bold? Specifically, what does "best" mean?
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You should parse it differently: The Chesapeake - does not impress those who know it best - as the grandest or most of anything. "Those who know it best" are people who are quite familiar with Chesapeake Bay. They know it well.
- You should parse it differently: The Chesapeake - does not impress those who know it best - as the grandest or most of anything.
- "Those who know it best" are people who are quite familiar with Chesapeake Bay.
- They know it well.
- In fact, they know it better than anybody else.
- They know it best.
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You should parse it differently:
The Chesapeake - does not impress those who know it best - as the grandest or most of anything.
"Those who know it best" are people who are quite familiar with Chesapeake Bay. They know it well. In fact, they know it better than anybody else. They know it best. To them it is not the "grandest" body of water or the "most" beautiful" one, descriptions
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