Timeline for How to succinctly apply an adjective to both nouns when joined with 'and'?
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Mar 25 at 20:27 | vote | accept | Ðаn | ||
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Feb 28, 2017 at 20:31 | vote | accept | Ðаn | ||
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Feb 14, 2017 at 3:42 | answer | added | Spencer | timeline score: 0 | |
Feb 14, 2017 at 3:28 | comment | added | Scott - Слава Україні | To be, or not, that is the question. :-) | |
Feb 14, 2017 at 3:09 | comment | added | NVZ♦ | @Dan I'm not an expert in the language. English is my second, third, or maybe even 5th language. ;) I hope you find a better answer. No brownie points for me. | |
Feb 14, 2017 at 3:03 | comment | added | NVZ♦ | @Dan Repeating words isn't always a bad thing. Have you watched Taken? "If you don't let my daughter go, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you." | |
Feb 14, 2017 at 3:01 | comment | added | Drew | @NVZ: I know you are. And I agree that many/most people would understand fresh as distributed throughout. The unstated part of the question is how important it is for the OP to be unambiguous. It doesn't sound like it's too important, and he mainly wants to avoid repetition. | |
Feb 14, 2017 at 2:58 | comment | added | NVZ♦ | @Drew (I hope it's fresh meat). I'm with you on this, adding just one word large before counties should be the simplest solution here. | |
Feb 14, 2017 at 2:54 | comment | added | Drew | @NVZ: Maybe most would, but it would still be ambiguous. (Would most assume the same for fresh fruit and meat?) | |
Feb 14, 2017 at 2:53 | comment | added | NVZ♦ | @Dan consider fresh fruits and vegetables. I think most people would assume that the vegetables are fresh as well. But such sentences are subject to misunderstandings nonetheless. | |
Feb 14, 2017 at 2:52 | comment | added | Drew | @NVZ: It may be understood, but it may not. It is not implied - any more than is another reading. It all depends on who the readers are and how important it is that they understand correctly. A formal document (e.g. a specification) would not rest on such "implication". | |
Feb 14, 2017 at 2:50 | history | edited | Ðаn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Feb 14, 2017 at 2:50 | comment | added | NVZ♦ | What Drew said. And to me large cities and counties is fine as it is, and I think large counties is implied there. | |
Feb 14, 2017 at 2:50 | history | edited | Ðаn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Feb 14, 2017 at 2:47 | comment | added | Drew | Only counties and large cities means that the scope of large is only cities. To make it apply to both, use only large cities and large counties. At the cost of one word, your intention is made clear. You don't want to do that, but you said that the only alternatives presented "add a lot of words". Only one word is needed. | |
Feb 14, 2017 at 2:44 | history | edited | Ðаn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Feb 14, 2017 at 2:18 | history | asked | Ðаn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |