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[Johnyxxx]

Hello,

I would like to know if the sentence I need to help with means what I think it means, that is, the sublime sight takes one off one´s feet by its beauty so one stops talking.

The mountain in the sunset had stopped the five couriers in a
conversation. It is a sublime sight, likely to stop conversation.

Tobe Read At Dusk by Charles Dickens, 1852

Thanks for help

 

[teechar]

Your question is unclear. What exactly are you asking ?.

 

[Johnyxxx]

Your question is unclear. What exactly are you asking ?.

Ok, if it is unclear I will try and put it in another way.

Does the sentence It is a sublime sight, likely to stop conversation mean The beauty of the sight makes one stop talking?

 

[Raymott]

Yes, that's what it means, broadly speaking.

 

[emsr2d2]

Your question is unclear. What exactly are you asking ?.

Teechar, please remember that we do not put a space before a closing punctuation mark and a single punctuation mark suffices. Your second sentence should say: What exactly are you asking?

 

[Johnyxxx]

Teechar, please remember that we do not put a space before a closing punctuation mark and a single punctuation mark suffices. Your second sentence should say: What exactly are you asking?

Teecher simply made a mistake; I would really make no bones about such a triviality.

 

[emsr2d2]

Teecher simply made a mistake; I would really make no bones about such a triviality.

Teechar is apparently an English teacher. There should be no errors in his/her posts. You might not make a fuss about it. I do.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Johnny, the moderators here correct all of us and each other. And sometimes, we correct the moderators. This is good for the forum in general.

 

[Johnyxxx]

Johnny, the moderators here correct all of us and each other. And sometimes, we correct the moderators. This is good for the forum in general.

Ok, I get it, one should definitely read what one writes to avoid the errors, but I am happy if somebody helps me with something I have trouble to understand and if they make a little mistake in doing so I can get over it. Everybody has the right to make a mistake.

 

[Matthew Wai]

Everybody has the right to make a mistake.

'To err is human', as the saying goes.

a little mistake

It might simply be a typo.

Not a teacher.

 

[emsr2d2]

Without wishing to embarrass Teechar, this is the fourth or fifth post in which I have had to correct spacing around punctuation and incorrect usage of two punctuation marks at the end of a sentence. It's not a typo.

Please accept that the moderators here don't make a fuss about something unless we think it's needed.