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MUSCOVITE Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

wrong usage?

Hi,

Suspect sentence (it is a quotation from a spec):

The following substation objects (in hierarchical order) are used in the SCL model, analogue to the CIM model for energy management systems.

Looks like the word "analogue" is out of place here? Is the following (corrected) version any better?

The following substation objects (in hierarchical order) are used in the SCL model, analogously to (or similarly to, or by analogy with) the CIM model for energy management systems.


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Yes, the other forms would make more sense. Not that the new sentence conveys much information to anyone not familiar with the technology. )

— Doctor D

  • Yes, the other forms would make more sense.
  • Not that the new sentence conveys much information to anyone not familiar with the technology.
  • )
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Yes, the other forms would make more sense. Not that the new sentence conveys much information to anyone not familiar with the technology. (That is, to the outsider, it sounds like grammatically correct noise.)
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Thank you, Doctor D!
Doctor D it sounds like grammatically correct noise.
You are right of course! Unfortunately, a spec may often sound like "grammatically correct noise" even to the insiders!
However the worst scenario is when you have to deal with "grammatically incorrect noise" created by means of bad machine translation
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