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Haajee
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01/10/2010 8:33 AM

Dear English Speakers & Purists!

One of my Grand-Kids [studying in UK] was writing an essay on health.

one sentence started:

Blood-Pressure can be dangerous....

I tipped that anything cannot be dangerous unless it is abnormal like Abnormal Blood Pressure .., Cholesterol is not dangerous or cannot be ..., while abnormal Cholesterol can be ..., you can say Hypertension can be dangerous ..

The kid showed me the original text in the book...

Is the kid & the text will be a good English ?
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01/10/2010 9:08 AM

It appears to be less a case of bad English and more a case of English badly used. I agree that your construction is better, but what follows "Blood-Pressure can be dangerous....? if followed by, "if it moves out of the normal range" it would be okay but your construct is more economical and I prefer that.

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02/16/2010 11:48 AM

This must be a joke.

'Grammer'....?!?!?

Grammar is correct. It would be much easier to overlook, if the subject of the post happened to be about something else.

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01/10/2010 9:20 AM

Without seeing the rest of the sentence it is impossible to render any type of intelligent response, except to say that the p in Blood-Pressure does not require capitalization and Blood-Pressure does not require hyphenation.

Other words here are unnecessarily capitalized, too.
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01/10/2010 11:02 AM

I agree with all points made in the first two posts. And it would be most helpful to see the rest of the sentence/paragraph.

Might I add that you are a wonderfully conscientious grandparent!
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01/10/2010 11:07 AM

What's up with the: ? Is there a story here?
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01/10/2010 2:23 PM

Wot, you don't like my avatar? It's the punchline to a long-forgotten joke the ex used to tell. Plus, it's socially acceptable and technically relevant relative to some other choices I had in mind...
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01/10/2010 3:46 PM

The threads in the photo are not clear enough to tell whether it is a right-wing or left-wing nut. In the case of no thread slope, would it be a moderate-wing nut?

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01/10/2010 5:07 PM

T'is a moonbat wingnut. Left-wing.

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01/10/2010 5:50 PM

Relax, just noticed that it had changed. Wing nut is fine with me.
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01/10/2010 2:00 PM

It is NOT a problem of language but of sentence logical construction. In any language the understanding will be the same.
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01/10/2010 11:13 PM

Do you mean ...logical sentence construction.? The same words placed in a different order commonly have a different meaning within a language, and very much so when changing between languages. I definitely disagree with your last statement!

I don't think you were being facetious, but it sort of looks that way - using a poorly constructed sentence as an illustration?

A poorly constructed sentence is a language problem, whether in one's native language or in any other!

I Agree with Sue in Post #3!

By the way Haajee, at least in the United states, grammar is spelled with two 'a's. Keep up the good work!

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08/24/2010 2:25 PM

Thanks for a fun.

Haajee is Trnsliterated from Urdu/Persian/Arabic to Latin alphabet
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01/11/2010 7:34 AM

I agree, its badly written, but modern.

Just like the word "Diet" is used to say one is trying to lose weight, but in fact the correct meaning is just anything you eat.

If used correctly for weight loss then you need to add some extra words as in " I am on a calory controlled Diet" or I am on a "Fat free Diet" or something.

Even "I am on a high calorific diet to gain weight and muscle".....is OK....and completely opposite to what is often meant!!

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01/11/2010 1:18 PM

Should be "High Blood Pressure Can be dangerous".

"Blood Pressure" cannot be dangerous. Without BP, you are dead!
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01/11/2010 2:25 PM

So it should be: "High or low Blood Pressure Can be dangerous".

Perhaps better still would be"Excessively High or low Blood Pressure is dangerous".

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01/11/2010 2:52 PM

Correct. Just checking to see if you were awake.

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01/11/2010 7:41 PM

Thanks to all who commented on the topic & who added some taste in the boring topic.

I am sorry that I could not reply in time due to blocked on the way due to "UK-Freezed"

Have a fine day.

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