kivi wrote:Had to check dictionary. Makes me wonder if young native english speakers would know what consumption refers to.
It's eating too much fast-food, right?
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Re: The life of low-ranked professionals
It's eating too much fast-food, right?
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Re: The life of low-ranked professionals
kivi wrote:Had to check dictionary. Makes me wonder if young native english speakers would know what consumption refers to.
Wow...
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Re: The life of low-ranked professionals
I know what it means, but (at least in the UK - I don't know about other English-speaking countries) it's considered fairly old-fashioned, if not obsolete, usage now. Indeed, this was a question in our pub quiz last week (which disease is meant by "consumption"?). We knew it, and I guess most others there probably did, but the fact it was actually asked (and it's far from an easy quiz) suggests that the term is not as widely understood as some people think.
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John Fairbairn wrote:
He died of consumption in 1940.
Wow, in 1940 Japan already had McDonalds?!
Patience, grasshopper.
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daal wrote:John Fairbairn wrote:
He died of consumption in 1940.
Wow, in 1940 Japan already had McDonalds?!
Thanks daal, I needed that!
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If we are sad about pros that became 1d but never advanced, I'd be more sad about people that aimed to become pro and never did.
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Joaz Banbeck wrote:IF I could make pro, AND then live another 40 or 50 years, I'd consider myself the luckiest man alive.
Just to be controversial - what's so special about being a low-level pro for 40 years?
And how do you know its better than being high-level kyu for the same time?
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Re: The life of low-ranked professionals
Being high dan is not necessarily succesful life. One dan leading contented life would be much better life.