XPost: alt.usage.english
On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 23:31:12 +0000, HenHanna <
[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 8:19:15 +0000, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
Ar an cúigiú lá de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh navi:
1) Sharecropping is not to be conflated with tenant farming,
providing
the tenant a higher economic and social status.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping
Which provide the tenant with a higher economic and social status?
I think the phrase at the end of the sentence is dangling. Would you
agree?
Maybe the writer is trying to cram too much information into a
sentence!
For me it’s ungrammatical, with its mixture of the present tense with
the
present progressive. It also lacks clarity and I suspect was a casualty
of the
editing process in Wikipedia.
>>> not to be confused
the word was replaced with [conflated] because
it sounded more Sophomoric... typical WP wording
That sounds possible, but I like another possibility. The
sentence is lousy mainly because it is unclear which is
better.
I don't know what distinctions define tenant farming OR
sharecropping, but the first intention of "conflating" is,
Don't consider sharecropping as a sub-category of
tenant farming (assuming only minor distinctions). Because,
income and status being involved, it will offend people.
As I react to the syntax - it is not clear which one provides
a higher economic status and social status -- the structure
suggests TO ME that "tenant" should be a reference back to
"sharecropper", yet it repeats the word "tenant".
The sentence would be clearer as
1) Sharecropping is not to be conflated with tenant farming,
SINCE [sharecropping | tenant farming] PROVIDES the a higher
economic and social status.
--
Rich Ulrich
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