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Nit-picking time - I'm struggling with this sentence construction: "in an effort to placate two ladies, placed each of them on two sides of his piano" Surely
by pschuegr 4y ago
Nit-picking time - I'm struggling with this sentence construction:
"in an effort to placate two ladies, placed each of them on two sides of his piano"
Surely a better way to say this is "placed one of them on each side of his piano"?
Saying "each of them on two sides of the piano" sounds to me more like he managed to put both of them on two sides through some kind of duplication scheme.
Edit: this is in no way intended to criticize the author, who may be ESL for all I know. Just got sent into one of those "what does this really mean" loops.
- JKCalhoun 4y ago> "placed one of them on each side of his piano" Wait, a piano is two-sided? Perhaps, "He sat at his piano with one lady on his left, the other on his right." ;-)