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faulty parallelism

Added to glossary by Kim Metzger
Jun 14, 2004 18:20
20 yrs ago
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English term

in terms of

English Art/Literary Linguistics
Dear Native Speakers,

I could really use your advice on the following sentence:

"All over the world municipal residents feel more ownership of their local governments than in terms of their national government"

I feel a little uncomfortable about "in terms of". Do you agree that it is awkward? Do you have anything better in mind?

Thanks in advance,

Peter
Responses
4 +10 faulty parallelism - replace with "of"
5 +11 see explanation
5 ...than they do their...
5 All over the world municipal residents feel more ownership of their local governments than they do w

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faulty parallelism - replace with "of"

All over the world municipal residents feel more ownership of their local governments than of their national government.
Peer comment(s):
agree Tahir
2 mins
agree Jairo Contreras-López
3 mins
agree Daniel Mencher
6 mins
agree jccantrell : Yes, exactly.
9 mins
agree Lia Fail (X) : But I think the notion of 'ownership' is really misplaced here,maybe 'committed to', 'involved with' ?
17 mins
"Ownership" is a favorite buzzword in the US - not one of my favorites. To have ownership of something is to have a say.
agree Anne Lee : yes, this is good.
4 hrs
agree Charlie Bavington : yep, the asker is right to feel uncomfortable! Simple correction works well.
5 hrs
agree Rajan Chopra
7 hrs
agree Elena Sgarbo (X)
8 hrs
agree Christine Andersen : or even 'affinity with' the local government? I feel I 'own' a brick or two of the town hall because I pay taxes, but not the members of the local ogvernment. We translators are too sensitive to what words actually mean for some people, I fear.
18 hrs
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+11
3 mins

see explanation

Declined
"in terms of" doesn't make any sense here.

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "ownership". If you mean "influence" or "involvement", I would use something like this:

"Throughout the world, municipal residents feel they have much greater influence over their local government than over the national government".
Peer comment(s):
agree Tahir
0 min
agree Daniel Mencher
4 mins
agree Lia Fail (X) : Except 'have influence over' may be stretching it a bit far?
17 mins
agree Vicky Papaprodromou
57 mins
agree Orla Ryan
3 hrs
agree cmwilliams (X)
4 hrs
agree Rajan Chopra
7 hrs
agree Alfa Trans (X)
9 hrs
agree Craft.Content : Perhaps the 'municipal' could be dropped, too.
11 hrs
agree mrrobkoc
14 hrs
agree karina koguta
1 day 1 hr
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Comment: "Dear Julia, To have ownership of your government means that you feel you have a say or impact on your government affairs. Thanks for your help anyway"
7 mins

...than they do their...

"All over the world municipal residents feel more ownership of their local governments than they do their national government."

Here, you are in both cases (local govt's and national govt's) referring to the residents' relative feelings of ownership, so you can simply substitute the verb 'to do' the second time, with 'feel ownership of' being implied. You are right, 'in terms of' doesn't seem correct here.

Good luck.

-Dan
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14 hrs

All over the world municipal residents feel more ownership of their local governments than they do w

All over the world municipal residents feel more ownership of their local governments than they do with respect to their national government"
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