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your essay 'reads nicely'?
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noot
Feb 9, 2011, 12:41:48 PM2/9/11
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Hi
I recently asked someone to evaluate my essay.
He said that my essay ' reads nicely, and is full of good content'
I recently asked someone to evaluate my essay.
He said that my essay ' reads nicely, and is full of good content'
what does 'reads nicely' mean?
Nick from England
Feb 9, 2011, 12:47:25 PM2/9/11
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I would say it 'flows'.
UK Nick
Eric Walker
Feb 9, 2011, 10:05:15 PM2/9/11
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It is pleasant and easy to read.
It is a common feature of idiomatic English to transfer a quality from a
process to the thing being processed--here, from the act of reading to
the thing being read.
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Cordially,
Eric Walker
Dry Gulch Pete
Feb 10, 2011, 2:49:11 AM2/10/11
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"Eric Walker" <em...@owlcroft.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:41:48 -0800, noot wrote:
>
>> I recently asked someone to evaluate my essay. He said that my essay '
>> reads nicely, and is full of good content'
>>
>> what does 'reads nicely' mean?
>
> It is pleasant and easy to read.
>
OR, more pithily, it flows! :-D
UK Nick DGP who enjoys lime cordial!
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