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Mon 26 Jan, 2015 04:43 am
Does "must here be alluded to from being intimately connected " mean "must here be referred to (in a more or less disguised manner) being intimately connected"?
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EXTINCTION CAUSED BY NATURAL SELECTION. This subject will be more fully discussed in our chapter on Geology; but it must here be alluded to from being intimately connected with natural selection. Natural selection acts solely through the preservation of variations in some way advantageous, which consequently endure. Owing to the high geometrical rate of increase of all organic beings, each area is
@oristarA,
No one would like to answer this?
@oristarA,
Yes.
EXTINCTION CAUSED BY NATURAL SELECTION....(we must briefly mention here) is intimately connected with natural selection.
Well no ****, Sherlock.
This is an example of academics' self-aggrandisement.
@McTag,
McTag wrote:
Yes.
EXTINCTION CAUSED BY NATURAL SELECTION....(we must briefly mention here) is intimately connected with natural selection.
Well no ****, Sherlock.
This is an example of academics' self-aggrandisement.
Got it.
But the usage of "
from" ( alluded to
from) still appears elusive to me. Would you like to explain this word in a bit more detailed manner?
@oristarA,
I don't like it either. I wouldn't use "from" there. I think our academic is trying to be too clever, or obscure, and having difficulty expressing his ideas in accessible English.
@McTag,
McTag wrote:
Well no ****, Sherlock.
This is an example of academics' self-aggrandisement.
Does "Well no ****, Sherlock" mean "Well no ****, Mr. Private Investigator"?
@oristarA,
What it actually means is "you have just stated the obvious."
May be compared with other common expressions like "Oh, really?" and "You don't say!" (spoken ironically)
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