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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

away of existence

English answer:

aware of your existence

Added to glossary by Lubain Masum
Oct 1, 2010 09:20
13 yrs ago
English term

away of existence

English Law/Patents Law (general)
This leaves you in an extremely vulnerable position because Immigration Authorities are already away of your existence and could deport you at any time.

Is it a phrasal verb? Would be helpful if you give some more examples.
Responses
5 +11 aware of your existence
4 +11 aware of your existence
4 -4 turned their back on you
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Non-PRO (1): Cilian O'Tuama

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Discussion

Noni Gilbert Riley Oct 2, 2010:
First in? Fortunately Lubain will know who posted first, from which reached him first.
Alexandra Taggart Oct 1, 2010:
Does it tell you anything? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=detention cen...
Alexandra Taggart Oct 1, 2010:
It should be "aware of your PRESENCE" "aware of existence" - that you exist at all?
Alexandra Taggart Oct 1, 2010:
Thank you very much! I have one particular reason to think this way.Govenments are encouraged to move away from using asylums. Deportations with short procedures - it's what the Immigration authorities do.Not for everybody, though.The abuse of the benefit system has pushed them to act roughly.
Noni Gilbert Riley Oct 1, 2010:
Google search results The results can give a false impression if you're not careful about how you carry out your search.

Alexandra put "turned their eyes away" (why this combination?) into google.com and received an encouraging 10,000,000+ hits.

I put the same expression between inverted commas and googled it with google.co.uk set to sites in English only... down to 600+ results.

I'm not questioning the normality of the expression she chose to google, but warning users about this kind of "false positive", if I may borrow the term.

Now, if we google "to be away of" on the same page, with the same settings, we get a good number of hits, 100,000+, but as always, it's worth checking what those hits contain. And we find plenty of examples of what I had first imagined was going to be the case, that this was a typo/misspelling of "a way of". We also find a large number of hits in the middle of badly written "texts". There are also a surprising number of hits which are using this expression exactly as if they were saying "aware of"...

Back to work for me, class dismissed! HTH
Catharine Cellier-Smart Oct 1, 2010:
Alexandra your Google search is for 'turned their eyes away'. I don't really see the link with what we're discussing ...
Alexandra Taggart Oct 1, 2010:
Not really,I wouldn't use it myself But I've heard it in sence http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=turned their ...
British Diana Oct 1, 2010:
way off I'm wondering if Alexandra might be thinking of the colloquial use of "way" as in "It's way too cold to go out today."
Otherwise, I'm afraid she's way off.
Alexandra Taggart Oct 1, 2010:
One and the same Great Britain where i've learnt it.
Catharine Cellier-Smart Oct 1, 2010:
Might be normal in some countries where English is spoken but I don't know which ... ;-)
Alexandra Taggart Oct 1, 2010:
not necessarily physically, can be mentally "I'm away of this" - is a pretty normal way to express "I don't want to follow", though, of course, it's incorrect English .
Catharine Cellier-Smart Oct 1, 2010:
"To be away of" does not exist. The only meaning of "To be away from" is 'to be physically absent', which does not make sense in this sentence.
Mark Nathan Oct 1, 2010:
Alexandra It is great the way that you often see the "alternative interpretation", but in this case I think it is a clear typo.
Alexandra Taggart Oct 1, 2010:
"to be away of"- is not a horrible mistake "To be away from" - not to pay any attention to.
Noni Gilbert Riley Oct 1, 2010:
Aware of your existence = they know that you exist, and that your situation is irregular.

Responses

+11
5 mins
English term (edited): away of your existence
Selected

aware of your existence

A typo for "aware of your existence"
Peer comment(s):
agree Arabic & More
10 mins
thank you Amel
agree Jack Doughty
12 mins
thank you Jack
agree Noni Gilbert Riley : Don't know who was first!
28 mins
I don't either ! Thank you.
agree Maja Basara
33 mins
thank you Maja.
agree Alexandra Taggart : With some new information I ave changed my mind.Please,don't think that I was against sensible"aware of",just these illegal(or legal)immigrants cannot be deported from the moment they arrived (when authorities are aware of their presence already.
1 hr
yes it is - it can't be anything else when you read the sentence !
agree Richard McDorman
4 hrs
thank you Richard
agree Egil Presttun
5 hrs
thank you Egil
agree Suzan Hamer
5 hrs
thank you Suzan
agree Cilian O'Tuama : maybe "typo" is the wrong word, but "away" should read "aware".
14 hrs
yes, thank you Cilian
agree Phong Le
19 hrs
cảm ơn !
agree jccantrell : gotta go with the first listed.
1 day 6 hrs
thank you JC !
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "This answer fits my context. Thank you, Catharine. "
+11
5 mins

aware of your existence

typo

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Note added at 17 mins (2010-10-01 09:37:49 GMT)
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Big brother is watching you!
Note from asker:
Thank you, Mark. Your answer is right but Catharine was a bit faster than you. I wish I could split points!
Peer comment(s):
agree Arabic & More
10 mins
agree Noni Gilbert Riley : Don't know who was first!
24 mins
agree Maja Basara
32 mins
agree Alexandra Taggart : No, it's not a typo.
1 hr
agree Tina Vonhof (X)
4 hrs
agree Richard McDorman
4 hrs
agree Egil Presttun
5 hrs
agree Suzan Hamer
5 hrs
agree Cilian O'Tuama : Interesting how our language is sometimes understood.
14 hrs
agree Phong Le
19 hrs
agree British Diana
1 day 3 hrs
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-4
1 hr

turned their back on you

They don't want to know what you want, your voice sounds as it far away.

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Note added at 7 hrs (2010-10-01 16:41:54 GMT)
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"to be away of" - is incorrect English, but it is understanding what the author said.
Peer comment(s):
disagree British Diana : The source term does not exist in the English language
53 mins
No, not in literature, but in spoken English.
disagree Graham Allen-Rawlings : ditto
1 hr
Probably, I wouldn't argue about it.
agree Noni Gilbert Riley : I don't believe the source term is anything other than a typo.
1 hr
Thanks a lot for your encouragement! I think the author didn't express himself properly.
disagree Cilian O'Tuama : "to be aware of" is the corrrect expression// I'd like to commend you on your English, but I don't understand.
2 hrs
if someone wasn't walking around with a tomahawk, I would have a chance.
disagree Richard McDorman : The term "away of one's existence" does not exist in English. The ST term in question is obviously a typographical or lexical error.
3 hrs
but the term "to be away from" does exist, it means (here)-"to back away"
disagree Egil Presttun : Doesn't make sense.
4 hrs
"aware of your PRESENCE" not "existence".
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