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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

You call that fair?! meaning

Hi all, what does "You call that fair?!" mean in the sentences:"People are people. It is true today, it was true ten years ago, and it was probably not much different ten thousand years before that: “After all I did to put this hunt together and make it a success, this is my share of the kill? You call that fair?!".
The previous sentences mean in my opinion. That the author was preparing the book by collecting several ideas and suggestions and organizing them in that book and that book was a success. And I think "You call that fair?!" is a slang (or urban language) but I don't know the meaning.
Could you transform it/ simplify it?
It's from Stone Douglas's book called "Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most."
Thank you guys in advance.

  

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I've already answered this, more than once, in your other threads. Let me try again, this time by offering you a few simpler examples. (Do) you call this ____?

— Clive

  • I've already answered this, more than once, in your other threads.
  • Let me try again, this time by offering you a few simpler examples.
  • (Do) you call this ____?
  • is a rhetorical question, not a real question.
  • It just expresses incredulity.
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I've already answered this, more than once, in your other threads.

Let me try again, this time by offering you a few simpler examples.

(Do) you call this ____? is a rhetorical question, not a real question. It just expresses incredulity.


eg I ask you to buy me a red sweater. You buy a blue one instead. I say You call this red?

eg I ask you for a cup

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This self-help book reads like it was spoken into a dictaphone while he was closing a deal on his computer and then typed out by his secretary. It is not good representative literate English, but it will have some interesting oddities in it. My guess is that the writer was talking not about this book but about some aspect of remuneration in business, likening an underpaid employee to a caveman

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