Talk:CP 03780/en

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Suggestions...

"disheartens" -> include the inverted commas.

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"I would only want your joy" -> "All I want is for you to be happy"?

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"You are fixating on language" -> "You are playing with words" or even "You are being semantic"?

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"Because a publisher, in principle, shares in the duties of printing these books." -> "Because one of the principal duties of a publisher is the printing of his books"?

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"a director of theatre" -> "a theatre director"

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"that one can see" -> "imaginable"?

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"and I am confused about it" -> "and that is an embarrassment to me"?

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"but then all that has been to return to the same one" -> "but after all that it has just meant going back to the same one"??

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"the same name that was said to me" -> "the same name that was given to me"

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"Perhaps it has for that matter admirable qualities" -> "He may well have admirable qualities"?

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"what is this miracle" -> "what a miracle worker he is"?

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"stupefaction" isn't in quotation marks in the original.

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"wrote:" -> "exclaimed" (s'est écrié)

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"all moral quality has the function of material difference" -> "all moral quality requires material change"? or "you can't have moral quality without material change"?

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"it was of interest to me that the brilliance of your publishing house could represent this book a little" -> "it may have been to my advantage that the brilliance of your publishing house added a little lustre to my book"?

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"based on a friendship thought to be as fond as ours" -> "out of a feeling of friendship, as did you"?

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"if it were to happen" -> "if things were to turn out"?

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"so that you would take them" -> "for you to take"?

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"publish in their entirety" "publish them in their entirety"

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"reached the other points" -> "got to the other points"?

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"the rights from Grasset" -> "my royalties from Grasset"

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"the first print of my book for a 200,000 copy literary review" -> "a first extract from my book for a literary review with a circulation of 200,000"?

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(Yorktaylors)