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0me too.02br
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00through experience, i think means that get or gain something precious by practising or getting through something relatively tough.02br
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00BTW: i want to ask all you guys, does my English sound weired or unnatural to you? thank you0-

0It makes a little more sense to me to read it this way: 'Literature has been... one of the common 01b00denominators... through which...'02b02br
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00Other common denominators through which human beings may recognize themselves and converse with each other would be: art...TV...movies...music.02br
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00I can see the grammatical poss

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00Literature has been, and will continued to be, as long as it exsists, one of the common denominators of human experience through which human beings may recognize themselves and converse with each other, no matter how different their professions, their life plans, their geographical and cultural locations, their personal circumstances. 12br
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00In my opinion «which» refers grammatically to «the common denominators of human experience»12br
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10 Broadly speaking, yes. That's correct. But if you were supposed to pinpoint it, which one would you chose, 'the common denominators' or 'human experience'?12br
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0 I'm an artist. Artists believe in art as a vehicle through which human experience is expressed. Art, in my experience, is a major common denominater through which human experience is made sharable. Human beings are made aware about many things in life through 01b00other individual's experiences... 02b00I venture to add, maybe even primarily so. I couldn't have writte

0 00Hum. Very persuasive. Much better than my banal grammar books.02br
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00 Everybody here agree with davkett, teachers?02br
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00 I'm an artist. 12blockquote

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00Dear Taka,02br
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00It is not through «human experience» that «human beings may recognize themselves and converse with each other, no matter how different their professions, their life plans, their geographical and cultural locations, their personal circumstances». Such would be tautology. It is through literature. Literature is «one of the

0 00Thanks for another persuasive explanation, goldmund.02br
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00 Could I ask you again the same question that I posted here before? 02br
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00 Where are you from?02br
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0 My opinion, for what it's worth:02br
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00What is literature: one of the common denominators (of what? of human experience)02br
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00What's the use of these common denominators ? (hence of literature among the others) : through them human being may recognize themselves etc...02br
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00So yes, I think "which refers to "the common

0Dear Taka,02br
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00Once, Mariabronn, Germany. Now, the World. 05002br
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00Kind regards,02br
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00Goldmund010id1