The chief of a computer-science laboratory where my friend works
condemned his usage of the word `several' in the the following
sentence:
We present several new piecewise-polynomial kernels for image
interpolation.
on the ground that it is a typical mistake made by those who
learned English in a Russian school. Perhaps I was not sufficiently
diligent in the English classes of my Russian school, but I see no
fault in that sentence, except maybe for a missing introductory
phrase, such as "In this article, we present..." Do you?
The chief of a computer-science laboratory where my
friend works condemned his usage of the word `several'
in the the following sentence:
We present several new piecewise-polynomial kernels
for image interpolation.
on the ground that it is a typical mistake made by
those who learned English in a Russian school. Perhaps
I was not sufficiently diligent in the English classes
of my Russian school,
but I see no fault in that sentence, except maybe for
a missing introductory phrase, such as "In this article,
we present..." Do you?
there's nothing wrong with that sentence... "several"
specifically means "three or more but not too many more"
;)
the prepending of "In this article" doesn't really add
anything to the sentence...
why did the chief of a computer-science laboratory think
there was a problem with it?
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