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07-09-2009, 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by YuriTokoro View Post
If I start with “Yomise is”, the next words should be “a night festival”. I should have written “Yomise means a small, mobile food stall opened at night, and is a night festival.” Is this correct?
Because when people explain things (of a meaning), people tend to equate things too, but not always. It's how people understand ideas. As we know, we do this with the help of languages.

Back to the point: you can also say "Yomise is a small food stall opened at night but conventionally* it is (a word for) a night festival."

But that is just my personal preference. In my case, I love to use adverbs .

*Conforming to established practice or accepted standards

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There are tons of ways to make a sentence (or two or more sentences; or a paragraph) of a desired meaning. That is a common trait in every languages. At the end, as a learner of human languages, there is a need to know that ideas can be expressed many ways with words.

Thank you.


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