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Taka Posted 17 years ago
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If you are a typical British householder, your bedreem drawers and wardrobes will be stuffed with almost three times as many clothes as you or your parents in the Fifties.
Why not simply 'your parents in the Fifties' instead? Or is it that this message is for relatively old people who were born sometimes around then? Maybe this excerpt is from some old text? Other than that, why not just 'your parents in the Fifties'?
Or does it mean something like, 'people of the same age as you in the Fifties, and it might include your paretns'?
Why not simply 'your parents in the Fifties' instead? Or is it that this message is for relatively old people who were born sometimes around then? Maybe this excerpt is from some old text? Other than that, why not just 'your parents in the Fifties'?
Or does it mean something like, 'people of the same age as you in the Fifties, and it might include your paretns'?
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Hi Taka I'd say the author simply wants to suggest that his statement is valid for people of any age in the 50s. In other words, perhaps he wants the reader to think in terms of people who were kids in the 50s and people who were adults in the 50s.
- Hi Taka I'd say the author simply wants to suggest that his statement is valid for people of any age in the 50s.
- In other words, perhaps he wants the reader to think in terms of people who were kids in the 50s and people who were adults in the 50s.
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Hi Taka
I'd say the author simply wants to suggest that his statement is valid for people of any age in the 50s. In other words, perhaps he wants the reader to think in terms of people who were kids in the 50s and people who were adults in the 50s.
I'd say the author simply wants to suggest that his statement is valid for people of any age in the 50s. In other words, perhaps he wants the reader to think in terms of people who were kids in the 50s and people who were adults in the 50s.
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