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Clive Blackburn
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by Clive Blackburn » Wed Feb 01, 2017 10:51 am
IM Jack Rudd wrote:"Careless" looks to me like a mistranslation of something that should be rendered as "not caring", if I've got the meaning of the sentence right.
I don't think that it is a mistranslation.
One of the main meanings of "careless" is "not caring".
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soheil_hooshdaran
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by soheil_hooshdaran » Fri Feb 17, 2017 4:29 pm
What does 'the essential parts of history' mean?
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Barry Sandercock
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by Barry Sandercock » Fri Feb 17, 2017 7:03 pm
Essential means important, critical, so it must mean those parts of history.
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soheil_hooshdaran
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by soheil_hooshdaran » Sat Feb 18, 2017 10:22 am
So it has the same exact ( identical ) meaning with important parts of the history?
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Barry Sandercock
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by Barry Sandercock » Sat Feb 18, 2017 10:29 am
Yes.
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soheil_hooshdaran
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by soheil_hooshdaran » Sat Feb 18, 2017 6:48 pm
Thanks
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by soheil_hooshdaran » Sun Feb 19, 2017 6:21 am
What does it mean if lines are yet wholly unoccupied?
I am vtrying to translate common sense in chess
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Barry Sandercock
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by Barry Sandercock » Sun Feb 19, 2017 10:10 am
Wholly means completely or entirely.
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soheil_hooshdaran
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by soheil_hooshdaran » Sun Feb 19, 2017 11:48 am
I mean, does it mean it is partly occupied?
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Barry Sandercock
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by Barry Sandercock » Sun Feb 19, 2017 12:02 pm
No. It means lines are completely unoccupied at present.
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soheil_hooshdaran
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by soheil_hooshdaran » Sun Feb 19, 2017 4:49 pm
Why?
Isn't the sentence ambiguous?
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Matt Mackenzie
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by Matt Mackenzie » Sun Feb 19, 2017 5:17 pm
Not really, the meaning of "wholly" is pretty clear.
"Set up your attacks so that when the fire is out, it isn't out!" (H N Pillsbury)
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by soheil_hooshdaran » Tue Feb 21, 2017 9:12 pm
What's the difference between "or shall I say" and "or let me say"?
Chess has been represented, or shall I say misrepresented, as a game.
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by soheil_hooshdaran » Wed Feb 22, 2017 3:51 am
What's the difference between
'Black has played quite wel'
and
'Black has played very well'?
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Jon Tait
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by Jon Tait » Wed Feb 22, 2017 8:49 am
soheil_hooshdaran wrote:What's the difference between
'Black has played quite well'
and
'Black has played very well'?
it's a matter of *how* well, with "very" being more well than "quite"
so if you think of "well-ness" as being on a sliding scale from 0-10, with extremely badly = 0 and brilliantly = 10
then "quite well" might be 7/10 and "very well" 9/10
