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echo: english_tutor
to: ANTON SHEPELEV
from: ANTON SHEPELEV
date: 2020-05-02 22:29:00
subject: Misinterpretation... 1.

I wrote:

> Since the new virus is more deadly than flu, it is only meet to
> give it more weight over other factors in the attribution of
> death.

Mefears it is an illiterate usage of "meet". Should not I have
written instead: "...it is only meet that it (should) receive more
weight over other factors..." I have not found a reliable number of
instances of "it is only meet to" in Google books, although I see no
problem with it...

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