| kalpea_tuli15:55 UTC22 Oct 2012 | Can you hold 'something' rather than 'someone' in high esteem?
I have the following paragraph:
The building behind us used to be a school. It was closed down in the 1980s because of the PKK-perpetrated murders on school-teachers, whom they saw as agents of the Turkish state. Today the building is still used as a storage space and the children have to commute the 50 kilometres to the city for education, or do not go at all. This is a hard lot for a region where education is traditionally held in high esteem...
What else should I write?
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| zashibis19:41 UTC22 Oct 2012 | Anything can be "held in esteem," so what you've written is fine.
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| soksabai11:39 UTC23 Oct 2012 | I agree
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| shuffaluff19:50 UTC23 Oct 2012 | I don't like the "hard lot for...". How about "a great hardship in..."?
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| pinchaque22:35 UTC23 Oct 2012 | I agree with 1 and 3 but would say "hardship for"
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