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English grammar, word usages, and related topics.
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James: How comes
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Hello: "How comes Chad so mixed up, anyway?" is this as idiomatic as "How come Chad's so mixed up, anyway?" --- [Chad seems to be divided in terms of "attachments" between Mrs. Vionnet and her daughter, Jeanne.] "No—but he's her best friend; after her mother. He's very fond of her. He has his ideas about what can be done for her."... more »
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James: for moving you
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Hello: "For moving you" has here, I take it, the meaning of "for taking you back to the States." Now, is "to move" still used this way? --- [Chad, surprisingly, wants to go home to the US. Strether's shocked by this change and doesn't quite like it now.] "But I want to see Mother," Chad presently returned. "Remember how... more »
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James: 'unbeknown'
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Hello: Why would he use quotation marks around 'unbeknown'? BTW, Strether's found about his friend's treason only after the fact. Is it because it was perhaps an archaism even in James' time and he wanted to use it jokingly? --- [Waymash, Strether's old friend, has been "telling on him" to those back in the Wollett, USA]... more »
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James: rose of observation
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Hello: Does the last resource refer to "the (rose of) observation" (which I believe) or to "wantonness?" --- Strether relapsed into the sense—which had for him in these days most of comfort—that he was free to believe in anything that from hour to hour kept him going. He had positively motions and flutters of this... more »
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James: so sacred to pleasant knowledge
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Hello: First, "the place had never before struck him as so sacred to pleasant knowledge" does this mean that "pleasant knowledge held the place as sacred" or "the place had never before struck him as so sacred, leading to pleasant knowledge?" Also, "which was somehow becoming, improving to life" does this mean... more »
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because and ,because
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Let me ask you about two sentences below. 1) The barometer has fallen, because it is raining. 2) The barometer has fallen because it is raining. With the presence or absence of a pause, is there any substantial difference in meaning? I know there rises a substantial difference in meaning when they're... more »
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James: she stopped him off
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Hello: "she stopped him off" Any extra meaning by adding "off?" --- [Strether offers to tell Miss Gostrey about the miracle product of his US town] He offered now, should she really like to know, to name the great product of Woollett. It would be a great commentary on everything. At this she stopped him off; she not only had no wish to know, but she... more »
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Origin of Lord & Lady
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Taken from; [link] "In England, bread even defined the social hierarchy. "Lord" comes from the Anglo-Saxon halford meaning "loaf ward", the master who supplies food. "Lady" comes from hlaefdige, meaning "loaf kneader", the person whose servants produce what her husband then distributed."... more »
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