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"CEO Jerry Yang will reportedly make the decision to go forward with these layoffs--or not--next week." English usage question: could that be reworded as "CEO
by henning 19y ago
"CEO Jerry Yang will reportedly make the decision to go forward with these layoffs--or not--next week."
English usage question: could that be reworded as "CEO Jerry Yang will decide whether to make these layoffs next week"?
- hollerith 19y agoI am not going to answer your English usage question here on the public forum because there is no sense in posting something many people will read for the benefit of a single person, and there is no contact information in your profile.
- davidw 19y agoSheez... I disagree with hollerith too, as it's not really that big a deal to have some off topic conversation like that (that might benefit other non-native speakers), but there's no need to vote people down so much for the occasional sub-par comment, unless it's really beyond the pale or the person is a troll - neither of which is true in this case.
- hollerith 19y agoTough crowd.
- icky 19y agoYes. Your English usage is better than the author's.
- alec 19y agoNo, it couldn't - your rewording loses the critical "reportedly" that lets the reader know that this is a rumor, not fact. I am not a reporter, and don't know the threshold for libel, but for a rumor you definitely want to write that, just like newspapers always use "the alledged criminal" before the trial is over.