| Re: Sentence-help |
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| Burton Samograd (kruhft@gmail.com) |
2006/05/31 11:23 |
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From: Burton Samograd <kruhft@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Sentence-help
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 11:23:26 -0600
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"Claus Melvej" <pikansjos@postkasse.com> writes:
> I need to use a qoute for my exampaper and due to my danish native I wonder
> if this sentence is correct:
>
> "The day will come when it will seem ludicrous to have furnished generations
> of visitors with but a few pithy words on the wall"
>
> and wonders if its a misprint and should have said
>
> "The day will come when it will seem ludicrous to have furnished generations
> of visitors with (nothing) but a few pithy words on the wall"
>
> Which i find to be the correct way of saying.
Both are correct (to my knowledge) but the first sounds like older
english and thus a bit more poetic (using 'but'), rather than direct
(using 'nothing'). They both convey the same meaning.
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