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 "If Britain is more unequal, it is also better off, with incomes under Labour up across the board."

=  Selv om der er mere ulighed i Storbritannien, er det også mere velstående og indkomsterne er gået op over hele linjen under Labour.

Those are goods that one can only enjoy by depriving someone else of them.

Jeg taenker at en socialdemokrat har skrevet denne paragraph. Typisk. Man kan jo altid bare bygge flere huse. Supply and demand. If you build it they will come.

Of course being a Social Democrat is an ignominy to a conservative American. Solidarity is a four-letter word,  vide the objections  to Pres. Obama's health care reform.

Maybe (perhaps). I wonder why the students are given political subjects to translate. Politics in Denmark is very popular I guess. Denmark has a new political party every year. One party splits off from another etc. Not sure what "vide" means. Did you by mistake drop a Danish word there? "Vide" like to know? Mixing the languages up can happen now and then. I know a German man who says "mit" instead of with when speaking English. Many Danes speak Danglish.

Vide in latin means to see., but you don't throw latin words around for no reason. I wouldn't in this instance.

No matter what you would   "Vide" does not mean "to see"; 

it is a Latin imperative meaning "see! "  or "witness! " and is often used in an  English context with the meaning "compare! ".

Jeg har aldrig hørt nogen bruge det ord i mundtlig eller nogen sinde set det skrevet. Jeg slog ordet op i ordbogen før jeg skrev min commentar. Min ordbog siger: vide v. Latin. see ( used esp. in making reference to part of a text. Objections to Obama's health care reform is not "at text" but opinions or objections. Jeg skriver på både dansk og engelsk.

Use of too many latin terms makes a person seem pompous or ostentatiously lofty. Quotes from the Bible or Shakespeare I like though. You don't want to be considered a European intellectual or a nerd (nørd is a Danish word now).

Now I din't mean necessarily to  translate vide into an infinitive (to see). There is not reason to be so exact. I am not writing an essay. I'm just writing a few comments. I don't have time to look everything up in dictionaries.

I did take the little Latin test in 2nd real and got a 9 so I know what the word meant.

I had a Danish teacher who used the word, "ergo" incessantly. It really irritated me. He should have used a nice Danish word like altså.

1.  "You don't want to be considered a European intellectual "   Why not ????????   What  is wrong with being one ? 

      Why  embarrassingly flaunt one's (American) inferiority complex ??   

2.   "There is not reason to be so exact "  Why  embarrassingly flaunt and make a show of one's (American) lack of precision ??  

3.  "ergo " (it follows)  is hardly regarded a foreign word in Danish today. It's used quite freely in ordinary speech,     particularly when drawing a logical conclusion from two or more premises. 

     (A new car costs money - I have no money - Ergo I can't buy a new car)

The Penguin English Dictionary 2003:

vide  -  verb imperative  used to direct a reader to another item, see  [Latin vide from videre to see]

I was typing quickly and I had to type the whole comment twice. For some reason I hit the wrong button.

It should have been, There is no (without "t") reason to be so exact. Also I meant to write, "a text" not "at text" , Just a couple of typos I made. I am not trying to "make a show". I should read it over for typos before sending it off though.

Regarding European intellectuals I have a name for them and others too: Eurapains. Instead of European.

How about letting the other guy figure out his own mistakes without putting him down? What's the Dansh word, "kværulere"?
 

That's a good example of using the word "ergo". Were you an English teacher once? You have a good command of the written language.

Jeg tror ikke studieportalen er god for at argumentere. Facebook og e-breve er bedre for det.