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Junkomama
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 Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:51 pm Post subject: a heavy responsibility (urgent question) |
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Children feel their parent's excessive expectation as a heavy responsibility."
Is this sentence acceptable?
Does this "responsibility" mean "burden" or "pressure"?
Thank you in advance!
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eddfx
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To answer your question, it means pressure or burden in this situation. You are correct in your guess.
I would not write a sentence like that, it is too thick for my taste. I would have written something like, �Children feel a heavy burden when dealing with their parent�s high expectations.� Or �Children are under tremendous pressure when dealing with their parent�s high expectations.� |
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Lorikeet
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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| I think it would be better to use parents' instead of parent's. |
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eddfx
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Lorikeet wrote: |
| I think it would be better to use parents' instead of parent's. |
Interesting. Why is that? |
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Lorikeet
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:37 am Post subject: |
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| Because I would think the sentence refers to both parents. I realize there are many different kinds of "families" nowadays, and some have only one parent, but it just sounded that way to me. |
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eddfx
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:56 am Post subject: |
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| Lorikeet wrote: |
| Because I would think the sentence refers to both parents. I realize there are many different kinds of "families" nowadays, and some have only one parent, but it just sounded that way to me. |
Ahh, you must be talking about artificial insemination or cloning. 
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Junkomama
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:57 am Post subject: |
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Thank you for your answer, eddfx-san!!
Thank you for your advice, Lorikeet-san!!
Regards,
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Lorikeet
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:21 am Post subject: |
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| eddfx wrote: |
| Lorikeet wrote: |
| Because I would think the sentence refers to both parents. I realize there are many different kinds of "families" nowadays, and some have only one parent, but it just sounded that way to me. |
Ahh, you must be talking about artificial insemination or cloning. |
Um no. I was talking about single parent households, in case that was what you were referring to. |
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eddfx
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Lorikeet wrote: |
Um no. I was talking about single parent households, in case that was what you were referring to. |
I know, I was joking.
I come from a single parent house hold and I found no need to change parent's to parent.
Though I am still curious why you would change parent's to parents'. Very confusing. |
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Lorikeet
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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| eddfx wrote: |
| Lorikeet wrote: |
Um no. I was talking about single parent households, in case that was what you were referring to. |
I know, I was joking.
I come from a single parent house hold and I found no need to change parent's to parent.
Though I am still curious why you would change parent's to parents'. Very confusing. |
Well, I don't know why it's confusing.
"parent's" means belonging to one parent.
"parents'" means belonging to both parents.
So if I say, "I am a product of my parents' value system." it means the value system of my parents. If I say, "I am a product of my parent's value system." it means the value system of one parent. |
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