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Originally Posted by Anglika  It is like so many skills - you need to follow the rules until you are fluent in what you do. Then you can bend them! |
Anglika,
Happy New Year!
But I need to revisit an old question that you replied to last time. I thought the word "forces links with all the three nouns (globalism, weapons of mass destruction and terrorists, that is forces of globalism, forces of weapons of mass destruction and forces of terrorists) and you agreed. I then asked you about the problem of AND and you replied that AND is not needed for stylistic reasons. That was the whole story. But recently another linguist was against this interpretation, saying that forces cannot be linked with weapons of mass destruction and terrorists. Could you take a look again? Thanks. The following is the whole paragraph:
"We live on a small, beautiful and a totally isolated planet, but its population is becoming too large; enormous new consumer societies are growing, of which China is the largest; and technology is becoming powerful enough to wreck the planet. We are traveling at breakneck speed into an age of the extremes – extremes in wealth and poverty, extremes in technology and the experiments that scientists want to perform, extreme forces of globalism, weapons of mass destruction and terrorists acting in the name of religion. If we are to survive, we have to learn how to manage this situation."