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Sentence #20696

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helloroto helloroto February 20, 2021 February 20, 2021 at 5:06:55 AM UTC link Permalink

This makes no sense to me without slightly changing the meaning but it's already received a translation. @CK can it be deleted?

CK CK February 20, 2021, edited February 20, 2021 February 20, 2021 at 5:21:30 AM UTC, edited February 20, 2021 at 5:38:52 AM UTC link Permalink

> can it be deleted?

No.

Remember that things might be correct in another dialect of English, or used to be correct and commonly-used. TRANG wants us to keep archaic English, too.

https://books.google.com/ngrams...n%20be%3B%2Cc0

That said, this is one I've chosen to leave off of List 907.
http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentence...direction=desc

helloroto helloroto February 20, 2021 February 20, 2021 at 8:01:55 AM UTC link Permalink

I had checked ngrams and hadn't found any uses that weren't either preceded by "as", "as still as still", or weren't followed by "can be" or "could be", or weren't just different uses entirely interspersed with punctuation eg "He was still. As still as a..."

However, after your comment I looked through more and found one reference from a book in 1968, so i guess it has been used then.

morbrorper morbrorper February 20, 2021 February 20, 2021 at 8:19:02 AM UTC link Permalink

At least maybe somebody could add an English translation?

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He was still as still in the presence of danger.

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He was still in the presence of danger.

edited by litong18, September 24, 2021

He was still as still in the presence of danger.

edited by litong18, September 24, 2021