No matter the language, everyone seems to understand Ukrainian all of a sudden. This nostalgic trip down memory lane is prompted, of course, by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the outpouring of support and admiration for the courageous Ukrainian people from other peoples around the world. In a city of churches, Eastern Europe was well represented. John's Greek Catholic Church, which my father's family attended, and at Saints Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church, which the other half of my family ( and I) attended. So was the mass I served as an altar boy at St. I apologize if my first answer was indecipherable, and I surely hope this is better.A stroll down Broadway with my grandmother on a chilly ('zimno' in Polish) fall day would produce a lot of smiling head nods and 'dobre, dobre.' Good, good. Due to the occasional heavy precipitation most residents have adopted the habit of working from home.' 'The residents of City X enjoy favorable living conditions. Though it can probably be improved, here’s an example of the rewording and merger I spoke of:

It matters to the validity of the first sentence, it matters to the residents of City X, and it will matter to those who read the report. The heavy precipitation that occurs from time to time does matter. The third sentence seeks to diminish the import of the second sentence (which brings us back to the gist of the OP) by seeking a formal stand-in for “this does not matter,” i.e., the periodically heavy precipitation.Īlthough each sentence of this paragraph is undoubtedly true and valid, each sentence also recedes from the import of the preceding sentence.Īside from completely reconstructing the paragraph, I believe the solution to the problem lies in a slight rewording of the second sentence and its merger with the third, while avoiding the use of “this does not matter,” or any of its synonyms. The second sentence significantly qualifies the first sentence, yet must be accounted for.ģ. The first sentence claims that the residents of City X enjoy favorable living conditions.Ģ. While the OP seeks a synonym for “does not matter,” by the time I arrived on the scene had already submitted a perfectly apt response, after which, if the adjective “irrelevant” wasn’t acceptable, all that was required to find one that was, was a quick googling of the adjective and, voila tout!-unimportant, immaterial, inconsequential, insignificant, meaningless, trivial, of no matter or consequence, of little account, beside the point, neither here nor there, etc., etc., etc.-so, rather than pursuing that, I turned my attention to a different problem I saw with the OP (writing), one that I thought would have even more bearing on the quality of FreshAir’s final product.ġ.

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