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Originally Posted by .,,  G'day Englishlanguage,
In my opinion you are not right and the many dictionaries you consulted are right.
It is not possible to change history.
History is. It happened and nothing you can do will change history.
You may review your opinion of history and change your opoinion but you will not change history.
Opinions vary but history is immutable. |
Hello,
Thank you for replying.
I don't agree with you. What you say could be right as far as you consider history itself without any interpretation. But in my opinion history cannot do without an interpretation, which is necessarily subjective and different from other ones, and this
can be changed.
Anyway, what I meant is that
to look back on/to history sounds to me like "to consider, talk about, think over historical events", while
to review history sounds like "to revise your opinion on a historical event".
Therefore the second implies you change your mind about the event you consider, the first doesn't.
Of course I may be wrong since I'm not a native speaker and I don't even have much experience.