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tcom
Joined: 06 Nov 2005
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 Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:10 am Post subject: interrogative or exclamatory |
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Hello. I have question.
The following sentences are about recession in the record industry and illegal CD copying and downloading.
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| "None of us wondered what the digitizing of sound waves would mean to our business," Stan Cornyn, a longtime Warner marketing man, wrote in "Exploding," a recent history of Warner Music. "How fidelity degradation, which had held back some from making free tape copies, would no longer be a factor once sound waves got turned into digits.... Digital sound, being so casually accepted into our world, was free to cause an epidemic. It would make data copying easy, clean, free, and something that felt about as immoral as killing an ant." |
I read this in two different ways. The first is that it means "How much fidelity degrades would no longer be an important factor." The second is that the sentence, or the word "How", is exclamatory, not interrogative. Which one is right?
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asterix
Joined: 26 Jan 2003
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,How, here, is used in its sense of, the way in which.
The sentence seems a little out of context, but I presume he's saying that the degradation which occurs when copying tape to tape was no longer a factor once music was digitized.
So it's neither interrogative, nor exclamatory, but rather, expository. |
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