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| location | Japan | |
| age | 80 | |
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I'm living in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo, Japan. I worked in both local and international advertising agencies for 40 years. After retiring ad agency, I studied Chinese (now almost forgotten) in a Beijing university one and a half year. Then coming back to Japan, I worked as a marketing consultant. I'm now entirely free from business. I still keep learning English and reading English news papers everyday to be abreast with trends du jour. I like travel and photographing. I'm living with my wife as an empty-nester.
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What does “it took one away” mean in the line, “For each superpower his brain gave him, it took one away” in encountering a gun attack? Cont. It’s unfair, mean and even coward and shameful to simply cast a ‘Close’ and ‘Down’ vote, without giving any clear reason under your name. At least, it’s autocratic practice, and not a democratic way of behaving, which I think you should attach importance. |
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What does “it took one away” mean in the line, “For each superpower his brain gave him, it took one away” in encountering a gun attack? To those who casted for “Close” votes: Would you cast “Close” after giving your own answer or comment to each point of my question? Even if it looks a naive and self-explanatory question to you, it can be a big and worth-for-trying-to-ask question for us, non-native English learners like Japanese, Chinese. Korean, Thais, Indonesian, Malaysian, Mexican, Brazilian and you can name it. I don’t think EL&U is the site only allowed to English language specialists and fluent native English speakers. |
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What does “it took one away” mean in the line, “For each superpower his brain gave him, it took one away” in encountering a gun attack? FumbleFingers. Thanks for a pertinent answer as usual. Your last line is interesting, because as I recall, the most frequent question raised in English classes and English reading circles in Japan is what ‘it’ represents for in the given sentence, whether it represents the antecedent word /clause or postposition or following clause. Sometimes we endlessly argue about what ‘it’ does mean. “It” is always the problem for us in learning English. . |
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What are the key difference among a liberal, liberalist and libertarian? ＠Gnawme. What does “Liberal and libertarian is similar like car and carpet” mean? Does it mean they are different though it sounds similar, or they are just the same antinomy to communism or despotism in different words? |
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What are the key difference among a liberal, liberalist and libertarian? @FumbleFingers. So there’s no widely-accepted or prevailing definition or general understanding of these three words, and everybody are using these words in their own way just in the air, and in Greek like humans on Babel’s tower. Does it mean I can use these words as I like among English speakers without any worries of being blamed for misuse? |
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