I imagine that two members have clicked the “Complete” or “Update Response” button without changing anything. I suspect that the system is to blame.
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I imagine that two members have clicked the “Complete” or “Update Response” button without changing anything. I suspect that the system is to blame.
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Hello Yutaka, I might be one of the people who hit respond without doing anything. The request just said Hi, Jim there is an open request and respond. So I hit respond and it was written in German. Since I don’t speak German I didn’t answer. I just got a second email. So I hit respond again and it was just saying the above remark. I don’t understand what it is that you want corrected.
I am testing the function by submitting a request, which in itself is a genuine request for correction.
Could you try to respond to the request? You may change any word. I want to know how the system works.
Moribund. Awesome word. So rarely is there a need for that word. Impressed you know that word. Really funny how you used it. No one would suspect you were not a native English speaker from your writing.
Thank you for your compliment.
For some reason the word “moribund” sounds mysterious to me. I must associate “mori” with “forest” , and “bund” with “Bund” in German.
In Japanese “森(mori)”, which consists of three trees(木), means “forest”.
I could tell he wasn’t a native because he used that word. Still, it was nicely done.
I agree with you, Julia. Yutaka comes across like a brilliant native British speaker… ^^_^^ Actually, I recall both a work colleague and a fellow law student in the habit of using that word. Perhaps it’s simply not a native American word… ^^
I had to look it up. In the US one would more commonly say “at deaths door” , “near death” if referring to a person or simply “dying” if referring to a thing.
But perhaps some can’t see the forest for the trees…
木(ki)を見て森(mori)を見ず。
Some people are more native than others.
(If you change “native” in the above sentence to “equal”, and “people”, to “animals”, it will become a famous expression used by George Orwell.)
The word moribund comes from the Latin word “moribundus”. In Portuguese we have the word “moribundo”