Timeline for A word instead of "as normal"
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| S Nov 8, 2015 at 19:03 | history | suggested | user146098 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 8, 2015 at 18:21 | vote | accept | frosh | ||
| Nov 8, 2015 at 17:40 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | Aha - looking at Rathony's answer I see that it is probably I who misunderstood. If Rathony has got the right handle on what you're trying to say, I'd abandon the think of X as Y construction and go for something like "If we think that in a normal world our remote control never gets lost, then we get angry when it disappears". | |
| Nov 8, 2015 at 17:32 | answer | added | user140086 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 8, 2015 at 17:06 | comment | added | frosh | OK, I understood what you mean, now I am checking the dictionary :) | |
| Nov 8, 2015 at 17:01 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | But you make that entirely clear with "a world in which. . . "; what more do you need? | |
| Nov 8, 2015 at 16:59 | comment | added | frosh | "as normal" refers to "a world" there. | |
| Nov 8, 2015 at 16:58 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | You can make this idiomatic with a plain old adverb: something like "does not normally/ordinarily get lost". | |
| Nov 8, 2015 at 16:49 | history | asked | frosh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |