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Re: The English Language

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Wed Aug 04, 2021 12:21 pm

soheil_hooshdaran wrote:
Wed Aug 04, 2021 12:12 pm
What is Policy Practice?
How policy ideas are carried out in the real world, I presume?
"Set up your attacks so that when the fire is out, it isn't out!" (H N Pillsbury)

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Sat Aug 07, 2021 9:19 am

Thanks

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Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Sat Aug 07, 2021 12:23 pm

What is a vigorous organization?

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Fri Aug 20, 2021 6:38 am

What are wage goods?

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Tue Sep 07, 2021 2:30 pm

What's the difference between
Failure to recognize something and not recognizing something?

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Sat Sep 11, 2021 3:00 pm

what's the difference between economizing and thrift?

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Re: The English Language

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Sat Sep 11, 2021 3:16 pm

The latter term is maybe more specific in the "making do with little" sense.
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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Sat Sep 11, 2021 8:56 pm

Thanks.
What is re-ethnicization?

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Re: The English Language

Post by Michael Farthing » Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:28 pm

Yes, I 'd like to know that too!

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Re: The English Language

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Sun Sep 12, 2021 12:20 am

I think the best question to ask with respect to that is "whose text are you translating?".

(It sounds very much like a technical term that the author will have defined either in that text or in one of their others.)

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Sat Sep 18, 2021 6:40 pm

IM Jack Rudd wrote:
Sun Sep 12, 2021 12:20 am
I think the best question to ask with respect to that is "whose text are you translating?".

(It sounds very much like a technical term that the author will have defined either in that text or in one of their others.)
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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Sat Sep 18, 2021 6:41 pm

What does with mean in:

The transition from home economics approaches to strategies of rural development for and with women occurred in a few years.?

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Sat Sep 25, 2021 2:40 pm

What does cooptation mean?

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Re: The English Language

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Sat Sep 25, 2021 2:44 pm

Merriam-Webster wrote: co-opted; co-opting; co-opts
Definition of co-opt

transitive verb
1a : to choose or elect as a member members co-opted to the committee
b : to appoint as a colleague or assistant
2a : to take into a group (such as a faction, movement, or culture) : absorb, assimilate The students are co-opted by a system they serve even in their struggle against it.— A. C. Danto
b : take over, appropriate a style co-opted by advertisers

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Re: The English Language

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Sat Sep 25, 2021 2:51 pm

"What does cooptation mean?"

I do not think it is a word. Jack is probably right, somebody has derived it from "co-opt".

Soheil is doing a great job trying to understand the stuff he has to read and I think it very unfair that people invent words in a failed attempt to look clever. I used to chair ISO meetings, which were held in English, and I always said early in the meeting that delegates should remember not everyone has English as a first language, so "please speak slowly and clearly, and use normal English."

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