shootingstar
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'I hate the cold and wet,' added Mrs Elm, for emphasis.
Mrs Elm had short grey hair and a kind and mildly crinkled oval face sitting pale above her turtle-green polo neck. She was quite old. But she was also the person most on Nora's wavelength in the entire school, and even on days when it wasn't raining she spend her afternoon break in the small library.
'Coldness and wetness don't always go together,' Nora told her.
'Antarctica is the driest continent on Earth. Technically, it's a desert.'
'Well, that sounds up your street.'
'I don't think it's far enough away.'
'Well, maybe you should be an astronaut. Travel the galaxy.'
Nora smiled. . . .
(The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, scene A Conversation About Rain)
What do you take "technically" to mean there? Does it mean "according to the exact meaning, facts etc." or does it mean "in a way that is connected with the skills needed for a particular science (e.g. climatology), etc."?
Mrs Elm had short grey hair and a kind and mildly crinkled oval face sitting pale above her turtle-green polo neck. She was quite old. But she was also the person most on Nora's wavelength in the entire school, and even on days when it wasn't raining she spend her afternoon break in the small library.
'Coldness and wetness don't always go together,' Nora told her.
'Antarctica is the driest continent on Earth. Technically, it's a desert.'
'Well, that sounds up your street.'
'I don't think it's far enough away.'
'Well, maybe you should be an astronaut. Travel the galaxy.'
Nora smiled. . . .
(The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, scene A Conversation About Rain)
What do you take "technically" to mean there? Does it mean "according to the exact meaning, facts etc." or does it mean "in a way that is connected with the skills needed for a particular science (e.g. climatology), etc."?
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