"The title was as well received as the argument"

[Sunshine_duo]

Good morning, can you please help me to understand a sentence here?

"The title was as well received as the argument, echoed in a variety of papers such as ...."

What exactly does it mean, the "...as well received as the argument..." in this sentence?

Does it mean, some people like it, at the same time, some people doubt (argue) it?

Thank you.

Source: https://www.economist.com/finance-a...nas-rulers-seem-resigned-to-a-slowing-economy

 

[5jj]

No.

The article was well received - people thought highly of it.
The title was equally well received.

 

[Sunshine_duo]

No.

The article was well received - people thought highly of it.
The title was equally well received.

@5jj , thank you for the reply!

Can you please help me with, the use/role of "as the argument" in the question sentence?

Does it mean, people thought highly of it, because of the argument (that the title tells)?

 

[emsr2d2]

@5jj , thank you for the reply!

Can you please help me with no comma here the use/role of "as the argument" in the question sentence?

Does it mean no comma here people thought highly of it no comma here because of the argument (that the title tells)?

Note my comments above. The underlined part doesn't make sense.

You need to parse more words. It's "X was as well received as Y".
X was well received.
Y was also well received.
As 5jj already explained, the title and article were equally well received.

"as + adjective + as" is used as a form of comparison when the two things on either end are equal.

John is as tall as Jim.
Madrid is as beautiful as Paris.

 

[Sunshine_duo]

Note my comments above. The underlined part doesn't make sense.

You need to parse more words. It's "X was as well received as Y".
X was well received.
Y was also well received.
As 5jj already explained, the title and article were equally well received.

"as + adjective + as" is used as a form of comparison when the two things on either end are equal.

John is as tall as Jim.
Madrid is as beautiful as Paris.

Oh.... the "argument" here refers to the whole article. (I thought the "argument" meant something else...)

So "The title was as well received as the argument" = "The title was as well received as the article itself".

Thanks again @emsr2d2 @5jj !

 

[Tarheel]

I suppose you could say that in this case the article and the argument are the same thing.

 

[PaulMatthews]

Good morning, can you please help me to understand a sentence here?

"The title was as well received as the argument, echoed in a variety of papers such as ...."

What exactly does it mean, the "...as well received as the argument..." in this sentence?

Does it mean, some people like it, at the same time, some people doubt (argue) it?

Thank you.

Source: https://www.economist.com/finance-a...nas-rulers-seem-resigned-to-a-slowing-economy

The title was as well received as [the argument], echoed in a variety of papers such as ...."

The bracketed element is a comparative clause reduced to just the NP "the argument". In full, the comparative construction would be "as well received as the argument was well received". Ungrammatical, of course, but that's how many comparative constructions are understood.

In comparisons of equality like this, it may help to consider the variables.

"the title was x well received"; the argument was y well received; x=y"