Re: could you explain, plz.
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Originally Posted by Chuvak
Could you explain (put in other words) the following sentence:
"Anyone forced through biological circumstances beyond their control to share the dinner table with sufferer hoped that he or she would get over it as quickly as possible"
????
Also I didnt get this red sentence:
you got married and lived happily ever after. There was no mention in the "literature" of dirty dishes, infidelity and quarreling. Similary, after one became a grown-up one was. Simply was
Thanks in adv. !!!
"with the/a sufferer" ?? - the sentence is very strange without an article. Actually, the sentence is pretty strange full stop. :lol:
I'll give it a try - I'll put in some punctuation marks first (not gramatically correct!!!), maybe you'll understand it yourself then ;) :
"Anyone forced, through biological circumstances beyond their control, to share the dinner table with sufferer, hoped that he or she would get over it, as quickly as possible"
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Re: could you explain, plz.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chuvak
Could you explain (put in other words) the following sentence:
"Anyone forced through biological circumstances beyond their control to share the dinner table with sufferer hoped that he or she would get over it as quickly as possible"
????
Let me take a crack at it. As is, the sentence sounds like a slightly shortened version of a proper sentence without an article before "sufferer." It's just like the statement - "Doctor gave patient viagra" lol! It would be more proper to say - "The doctor gave the patient viagra." The former statement is a shortened version, usually seen on notes and less formal communications. So, more properly, the sentence should be - "Anyone forced through biological circumstances beyond his or her control to share the dinner table with a sufferer hoped that he or she would get over it as quickly as possible."
As to the meaning,
"Anyone forced through biological circumstances beyond their control..." i.e. relatives. As a saying goes, "You choose your friends, but not your relatives."
"to share dinner with sufferer..." i.e. to share dinner with someone suffering from something. As is, it sounds like the ailment that the sufferer is suffering from was mentioned previously.
"hoped that he or she would get over it as quickly as possible." This has two possible meanings. If the statement is not meant in jest, the meaning would be that the one sharing the dinner table with a relative suffering from something hopes that the sufferer would get over his or her ailment as soon as possible. If it is meant in jest, the other possible meaning would be that the one sharing the dinner table with a relative hopes the he or she would get over it quickly - "it" being having to share the dinner table with a relative suffering from something and complaining about it all the time.
The first part of the sentence suggests that the sentence might be partly meant in jest. "Anyone forced through biological circumstances beyond their control to share dinner..." has the sound of a statement said in jest.
In other words, "Somebody forced to have dinner with a relative suffering from an ailment hopes the relative gets over his or her ailment as soon as possible."
or, "Somebody forced to have dinner with a relative suffering from an ailment hopes to get over the dinner as soon as possible." - implying that he or she wants to get dinner over with as soon as possible in order to stop hearing annoying complaints from his or her relative about all the things that the relative is suffering from.
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Also I didnt get this red sentence:
you got married and lived happily ever after. There was no mention in the "literature" of dirty dishes, infidelity and quarreling. Similary, after one became a grown-up one was. Simply was
Thanks in adv. !!!
I think being grown up is compared to being married in the above. People associate marriage with living happily ever after. However, there is no mention of the horrors, so to speak, of marriage, i.e. dirty dishes, infidelity, and quarrels. Similarly, when one is young, one associates being grown up with everything good. However, when one has grown up, one realises the horror of being a grown up, which is that - "one was" i.e one is a grown up and has lost the joys of youth, and "Simply was." i.e. there is nothing special about being grown up after all, just like there is nothing special about being married after all and one doesn't really live happily ever after, but has to live with all the other horrible things about marriage. It's a bit philosophical, yes.