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use to choose

English translation: that they can use to help them choose

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English term or phrase:use to choose
Selected answer:that they can use to help them choose
Entered by: S.J

03:59 Apr 1, 2020
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English term or phrase: use to choose
it's very tempting to wonder, "Are babies looking at a face smiling at them and then thinking, 'That's for me, relevant to me,
and it's something I care about,' and something they use to choose who to learn from?"

A scientist saying that babies have what is might be a predisposition to who babies learn from and what they learn structured into the baby's brain.

Is there good linking between, Something they... and the beginning of the question, Are babies...? Is it better to say "Are babies looking at a face smiling at them, and consider it as something use to choose who to learn from?

Thanks in advance,
S.J
Canada
Local time: 04:02
that they can use to help them choose
Explanation:
Yes, you're right; in you're re-written version, you simply left out e.g. "Are babies looking at a face smiling at them, and consider it as something that they can use to choose who to learn from"

In other words, if a baby recognises e.g. a smiling face, it helps them understand this is someone (something!) they can learn from.
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Tony M
France
Local time: 10:02
Grading comment
Thank you so much.
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4 +3that they can use to help them choose
Tony M
4relied upon for the purpose of making a choice
D. I. Verrelli


  

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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
that they can use to help them choose


Explanation:
Yes, you're right; in you're re-written version, you simply left out e.g. "Are babies looking at a face smiling at them, and consider it as something that they can use to choose who to learn from"

In other words, if a baby recognises e.g. a smiling face, it helps them understand this is someone (something!) they can learn from.

Tony M
France
Local time: 10:02
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 309
Grading comment
Thank you so much.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tina Vonhof (X)
6 hrs
  -> Thanks, Tina!
agree  B D Finch: Though, I do object to the use of "who" instead of "whom". Just call me an old-fashioned pedant. I do think that attributing the quoted thoughts to babies is just plain silly, but translators often do have to translate nonsense.
9 hrs
  -> Thanks, B! I fear 'whom' is all but disused these days... And as you say, as far as translators are concerned, GIGO applies!
agree  Yvonne Gallagher: prefer "whom " as well. I don't agree it's died out:-)
2 days 2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Yvonne!
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1 day 6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
relied upon for the purpose of making a choice


Explanation:
"Are babies looking at a face smiling at them and then thinking, 'That's for me, relevant to me, and it's something I care about,' and something they use to choose who to learn from?"
~
"When a baby sees a face smiling at them, does the baby think, 'That smiling face has appeared because of me, and it is interesting to me,' and (if so) does the presence or absence of a smile on a person's face affect whether a baby decides to learn from that person?"


D. I. Verrelli
Australia
Local time: 18:02
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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