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3741615 No.3741615 [Reply] [Original]

Do you guys think I need to add a 'respectively' to the end of:

'the essay insists upon the validity of generic heterogeneity – advocating a distinction between texts of 'adventure' and 'character' (...)

It's late and I can't quite work out whether it's necessary or not. Thanks, bros.

>> No.3741622

no you don't

>> No.3741624

No.

And not to be a douche, but that sentence sounds ugly.

>> No.3741626

>>3741615
>insists upon the validity of generic heterogeneity

Kill yourself for trying that hard to sound "smart."

>> No.3741645

>>3741626

I don't understand your inverted commas.

Are you bringing the idea of smartness into question, or suggesting that I'm failing to fulfill a definition of smartness which I invented for myself?

>> No.3741692

>>3741615

I've really only used 'respectively' when describing two separate things in a separate part of the sentence.

"Jan and Jack are both senior citizens, aged 68 and 72, respectively."

I would also get rid of the hyphen, seems a comma would be more appropriate.

>> No.3741701

>>3741645
not that guy, but i think he's implying it sounds smart but actually isn't

>> No.3741708

>>3741701

I think we can all safely agree on this. Though without context it's hard to see how tryhard it really is.