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     Re: `Several' misapplied?   
     By: Anton Shepelev to All on Mon Mar 29 2021 01:18:14   
      
      
    > 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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