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| #3 (permalink) Tue Sep 21, 2010 13:14 pm uptake in attacks by |
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| Jackson6612 wrote: |
| And shouldn't it be 'the attacks'? |
I wouldn't say so. There hasn't been any attacks recently.
He's said: ... those things plus the uptake in attacks by Muslimes with some American connections...
I've understood the phrase the uptake in attacks as getting more sensitive, testy.
Compare it with the phrase a huge uptake in ....
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| #4 (permalink) Wed Sep 22, 2010 13:19 pm uptake in attacks by |
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I understood the phrase "uptake in attacks" as "increase in attacks".
Getting mose sensitive seems out of place.
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| #5 (permalink) Wed Sep 22, 2010 13:39 pm uptake in attacks by |
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Hi,
I am glad to find out that someone else understood ''uptake in attacks'' the same way that I did. Tort, I can tell you that I have looked up ''uptake'' in several dictionaries and I wasn't able to find this particular meaning (increase) in any of them -- nothing similar, for that matter.
I hope a native speaker will let me know if uptake can ever have the meaning of increase.
That is the meaning that I assumed/worked out from several contexts.
Thanks
May I ask whether you are a native speaker of English, Dwarf? Ta-ta for now. :-)
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| #6 (permalink) Wed Sep 22, 2010 13:47 pm uptake in attacks by |
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I don't know exactly, but
to be under attack can be a synonym for to offer criticism.
But an uptake is not a synonym for a rise or an upswing.
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| #7 (permalink) Wed Sep 22, 2010 13:56 pm uptake in attacks by |
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| Cristina.ro wrote: |
Hi,
I am glad to find out that someone else underst ood ''uptake in attacks'' the same way that I did. |
Yeah, that was my first impression. Though I think "increase" would be better. I found only a handful of similar usages of "uptake" in COCA.
I'm too waiting on native speakers to have the last say in this discussion. Hehe.
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| May I ask whether you are a native speaker of English, Dwarf? Ta-ta for now. :-) |
Going by http://www.english-test.net/forum/sutra291553.html#291553, EvilDwarf is not a native speaker, I'm picking up an accent.
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| #8 (permalink) Wed Sep 22, 2010 14:00 pm uptake in attacks by |
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| EvilDwarf wrote: |
| I don't know exactly, but to be under attack can be a synonym for to offer criticism. |
I very much doubt that.
I believe to be under attack (figuratively speaking) means to receive strong criticism/to be severely criticised.
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| #9 (permalink) Wed Sep 22, 2010 14:10 pm uptake in attacks by |
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Yes of course, but I've meant an attack doesn't have to be a violent act.
But I've found this quote.
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| The concern is that in the last several weeks, there have been a rash of deadly attacks. Just last Thursday, a coordinated bombing attack killed 68 people at a popular shopping district in Baghdad, the biggest attack in a month. Military spokesman Rear Admiral Gregory Smith told reporters in Baghdad yesterday that the uptake in attacks is not a harbinger of things to come. |
So the uptake in attacks = a smattering of attacks.
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| #10 (permalink) Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:58 am uptake in attacks by |
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| EvilDwarf wrote: |
| So the uptake in attacks = a smattering of attacks. |
A smattering of attacks as in a small amount of attacks? I very much doubt that too, Dwarf.
The way I see it, that is completely contradicted by the previous statement:
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| The concern is that in the last several weeks, there have been a rash of deadly attacks. |
A rash of something = a lot of something!
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| #11 (permalink) Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:05 pm uptake in attacks by |
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Yeah, but it was said:
... the uptake in attacks is NOT a harbinger of things to come...
that means for me:
Some terrible attacks've been cropping up, but it isn't a danger. Obviously the General had another opinion as the journalist, who wrote this article.
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| #12 (permalink) Thu Sep 23, 2010 13:30 pm uptake in attacks by |
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| ...the uptake in attacks is not a harbinger of things to come. |
To me that implies that the uptake in attacks does not necessarily indicate that things would continue in the same manner/rythm. In other words, the uptake in attacks is not a sign that more attacks would take place.
Help, teachers! We are going to end up by creating a whole new language here!
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| #13 (permalink) Thu Sep 23, 2010 14:23 pm uptake in attacks by |
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| Cristina.ro wrote: |
| We are going to end up by creating a whole new language here! |
You had better write
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| We really don't want to take up creating a new language. |
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| #14 (permalink) Thu Sep 23, 2010 14:47 pm uptake in attacks by |
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:-D
On second thought, I probably should have left out ''by'' in that sentence.
I don't see how the sentence that you have suggested would be better, though.
But why have you started correcting my writing now, Dwarf?
Should I do the same thing now? How about written, there?
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| #15 (permalink) Thu Sep 23, 2010 15:03 pm uptake in attacks by |
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Cristina, it was a joke considering take up and uptake.
had better
Sorry,
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