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Thread poster: Eve Schuttle (X)
Eve Schuttle (X)
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German to English
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Oct 16, 2005

Hi

Is the word order in the following sentence correct:

"These can then be purposefully made available over a portal."

Cheers

Eve
 
Samuel Murray
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Netherlands
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English to Afrikaans
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Kudoz question Oct 16, 2005

Eve Schuttler wrote:
Is the word order in the following sentence correct:
"These can then be purposefully made available over a portal."


Shouldn't you rather ask in Kudoz?
 
Brie Vernier
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Germany
Local time: 14:14
German to English
Word order Oct 16, 2005

Hello Eve,

May I suggest that you post this on the English KudoZ board? I'd say the word order is fine, but the "purposefully" makes it awkward. Perhaps consider leaving it out altogether, or can you explain just what it is meant to convey? I'm guessing it comes from the German "zielgerichtet" (or similiar), in which case you may find some inspiration under these links:

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Hello Eve,

May I suggest that you post this on the English KudoZ board? I'd say the word order is fine, but the "purposefully" makes it awkward. Perhaps consider leaving it out altogether, or can you explain just what it is meant to convey? I'm guessing it comes from the German "zielgerichtet" (or similiar), in which case you may find some inspiration under these links:

http://www.proz.com/kudoz/188086
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/1089222

Otherwise, if you have the original text, you may want to post that in the German > English KudoZ.

Hope that helps.

Cheers--

Brie ▲ Collapse
 
Jeff Allen
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France
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Multiplelanguages
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word order with word purposel Oct 16, 2005

Eve Schuttler wrote:

Is the word order in the following sentence correct:

"These can then be purposefully made available over a portal."


Sounds fine to me.

Jeff
http://www.geocities.com/jeffallenpubs/about-jeffallen-htm
 
Jennifer Baldwin
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Local time: 05:14
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Awkward but not incorrect Oct 17, 2005

It's not a pretty sentence, but there's nothing ungrammatical or incorrect about it, at least in my dialect (General American).
 


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