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The city that forgot itself

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Re: The city that forgot itself

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Post by afandian »

bmacho wrote: post #35
smcin wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GP post cites Collins defining "fix a gaze on"! https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/fix-a-g... Yes Collins knows about it. Even this lesser-known site knows about it: https://texttospeech.io/thesaurus/gaze > Definition of gaze: (n): a long fixed look; "he fixed his paternal gaze on me"

We are talking about 'fixing smth with a gaze' and not 'fixing gaze on smth'. The verb, the object and the subject are different.

A dictionary doesn’t capture the entire language. In this thread there are native speakers saying that this is a well formed, meaningful English sentence. Therefore it is.

Re: The city that forgot itself

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Post by [deleted] »

Texasian wrote: post #40
nottorp wrote: post #13

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There seems to be an agenda there. If you check wikipedia at least, the muslim-christian population exchange between Greece and Turkey wasn't quite like the article describes it. The facts may be somewhere in the middle, but certainly not in this article.

You say that as if it’s a bad thing. Not all writing needs to be as dry as a technical bulletin.

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Re: The city that forgot itself

#43

Post by bmacho »

afandian wrote: post #41
bmacho wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are talking about 'fixing smth with a gaze' and not 'fixing gaze on smth'. The verb, the object and the subject are different.

A dictionary doesn’t capture the entire language. In this thread there are native speakers saying that this is a well formed, meaningful English sentence. Therefore it is.

Are there? Where? Point at one? Two?

Re: The city that forgot itself

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Post by nottorp »

Texasian wrote: post #40
nottorp wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There seems to be an agenda there. If you check wikipedia at least, the muslim-christian population exchange between Greece and Turkey wasn't quite like the article describes it. The facts may be somewhere in the middle, but certainly not in this article.

You say that as if it’s a bad thing. Not all writing needs to be as dry as a technical bulletin.

That’s how you do a proper propaganda piece, you write an emotional article that is mostly correct and insert subtle nudges to your actual topic :)

Re: The city that forgot itself

#45

Post by afandian »

bmacho wrote: post #43
afandian wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A dictionary doesn’t capture the entire language. In this thread there are native speakers saying that this is a well formed, meaningful English sentence. Therefore it is.

Are there? Where? Point at one? Two?

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Re: The city that forgot itself

#46

Post by genghisjahn »

marky1991 wrote: post #17
0xEF wrote: post #14

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> who says that? People who watch US TV shows about the American South. Having lived there for awhile and still travel there for work today, I can say with some certainty that the folksy dialect that media gives to people of that region is either largely embellished or made-up. If we stay on the word "fix," I mostly hear it in context of someone making a meal ("Fixing breakfast," etc). The Appalachian regions are mus…

"("Fixing breakfast," etc)." Yes, this makes sense, you can fix ('make', off the top of my head, only used in this sense for cooking really) breakfast, but surely the author doesn't mean the woman was materializing/cooking a shrine as a dish with her eyes either.

In Texas we’d say things like “I’m fixing to go over yonder.” Meaning “I’m about to go over there.”

Re: The city that forgot itself

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Post by xyzsparetimexyz »

dambi0 wrote: post #8
xyzsparetimexyz wrote: post #4

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That's a broken sentence.

Broken seems a bit harsh. It might not be idiomatic, it might fall foul of some grammatical standard. But you know what it means.

No, I do not! It is absolutely derived of context.

Re: The city that forgot itself

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Post by nindalf »

xyzsparetimexyz wrote: post #47
dambi0 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Broken seems a bit harsh. It might not be idiomatic, it might fall foul of some grammatical standard. But you know what it means.

No, I do not! It is absolutely derived of context.

Kinda like how I understood what you meant here ("absolutely devoid of context") in spite of your error ("derived of context"). Sometimes we need to make an effort to understand.

I wouldn't make you feel bad by saying "that's a broken sentence! I can't understand it!"

Re: The city that forgot itself

#49

Post by nindalf »

nottorp wrote: post #13
DeathArrow wrote: post #6

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It is not an informative article, it's a piece designed to convey emotions and sentiments so readers are more willing to embrace author's view.

There seems to be an agenda there. If you check wikipedia at least, the muslim-christian population exchange between Greece and Turkey wasn't quite like the article describes it. The facts may be somewhere in the middle, but certainly not in this article.

Could you describe how the muslim-christian population exchange actually happened?

What is the agenda of this piece?

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