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From: Jaakov <jaakovREMOVEIT@DELETEITro.ru>
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Subject: "roughly speaking" versus "roughly spoken"
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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:40:42 +0200
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Dear all:
In sciences one has to write sentences similar to the following ones
(where X and Y are some nominal phrases):
- One can view X, roughly speaking, as an abstraction of Y.
- One can view X, roughly spoken, as an abstraction of Y.
What is the difference? Does one alternative sound better than another one?
And, by the way, is it possible to substitute "roughly speaking" or
"roughly spoken" by the following phrases:
- cursory speaking,
- cursory spoken,
- simply put,
- to put it simply?
Thanks in advance,
Jaakov.
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