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Help! Translation Question

 
 
Reply Sat 31 Oct, 2009 07:02 am
Can I say "return letters" meanning reply to letters?
 
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Reply Sat 31 Oct, 2009 07:04 am
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Reply Sat 31 Oct, 2009 07:13 am
thanks, but is it absolutely wrong ( cuz I wrote it in an exam)? We do say return calls or emails, right?
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Reply Sat 31 Oct, 2009 07:23 am
No, to "return letters" is to send them back unopened. I think you want "reply letter" or something to that effect. I don't know of a direct corollary to a "return phone call" for letters.
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