Irony Coast
"Once again, when powerful governments negotiated, the freedom of small nations was somehow expendable," the president said, opening a four-nation trip to mark the 60th anniversary of Nazi Germany's defeat. "Yet this attempt to sacrifice freedom for the sake of stability left a continent divided and unstable."
To paraphrase Apu, "I don't know which part of that sentence to start with."
posted by Armen Adzhemyan at 10:16 AM
8 Comments:
why?
When I said I don't know where to begin, I really meant it. I suppose this is as good a place as any.
I believe Apu's exact words were:
"I don't know which part of that sentence to correct first."
TO PARAPHRASE APU...it's not that hard to read in English. You have the writing part down.
“Paraphrase” is defined as a "restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words, often to clarify meaning."
Your statement is not only a serious deviation from what Apu said, but is much less coherent, and thus is not a paraphrase.
Moreover, “paraphrase” is a noun, not a verb, so you used it incorrectly.
It's not that hard to understand English. You have the reading part down.
Main Entry: paraphrase
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -phrased; -phras·ing
intransitive senses : to make a paraphrase
transitive senses : to make a paraphrase of
Correct me again on grammar and I'll chop off your balls.
Perhaps. But you still didn't "paraphrase" Apu.
1 : a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form
I apologize, but I'm gonna have to take those balls now.
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