Am I right?

[RonBee]

Originally Posted by Harry Smith

Perhaps PinkGreat wants to say: Macondo was then a little hamlet with two dozen huts built of clay and bamboo on the riverbank whose transparent waters swept along on a bed of white polished stones, as big as prehistoric eggs.

That's perfect except that you don't need the comma after stones. (They were stones as big as prehistoric eggs (perhaps brontosaurus eggs?).)

~R

[BobK]

Originally Posted by Harry Smith

I can't find "two dozens of huts" in Curmudgeon's translation.

Of course not - it's not there. It was in PG's original, which curmudgeon corrected. I was adding something that I thought was worth underlining.

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[Miner49'er]

So, may I assume that beginning the sentence with:

"At that moment" is not good at all?

[RonBee]

Originally Posted by Miner49'er

So, may I assume that beginning the sentence with:

"At that moment" is not good at all?

If my recall of the sentence is accurate, "At that moment" is perfectly fine.

~R

[Miner49'er]

Ouff,.....relief

[Miner49'er]

Night RonBee

[BobK]

Originally Posted by Miner49'er

So, may I assume that beginning the sentence with:

"At that moment" is not good at all?

Sorry to disturb your sleep, Miner49'er, but Ron began his posting with the proviso 'If my recall of the sentence is accurate...'. You're describing a state of affairs. You can say 'At that time...' or 'In those days...' (or several other paraphrases), but not 'At that moment...'. 'At that moment...' introduces an event: At that moment, a man burst into the room wearing a clown costume.

Of course, this might be another AmE/BE thing; but in BE you can't use 'At that moment...' in the way you suggest.

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[PINKGREAT]

By 'two dozens' I meant 'a score'.

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by PINKGREAT

By 'two dozens' I meant 'a score'.

2 dozen = 24
1 score = 20

[curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by PINKGREAT

By 'two dozens' I meant 'a score'.

probably better to be indeterminate; 'A handful', 'a scattering' 'less than 20'