crude

English translation: rough, primitive, barbaric, degrading, humiliating

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English term or phrase:crude
Selected answer:rough, primitive, barbaric, degrading, humiliating
Entered by: Ana Juliá

10:22 Mar 3, 2017
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Religion / Comments to First Corinthians
English term or phrase: crude
Paul’s preaching in Corinth focused on the saving fact of Christ’s crucifixion, a method of execution considered so ***crude*** it was not even mentioned in polite company. The Corinthians’ fascination with the rhetorical ability of the ministers rather than their message demonstrated that they were living contrary to the power of the cross.
Ana Juliá
Spain
Local time: 13:55
rough, primitive, barbaric.
Explanation:
The Corinthians were more concerned with the wording than with the message,
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Jack Doughty
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Local time: 12:55
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4 +14rough, primitive, barbaric.
Jack Doughty


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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +14
rough, primitive, barbaric.


Explanation:
The Corinthians were more concerned with the wording than with the message,

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:55
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 71
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Daryo: gross?
1 min
  -> Thank you. Yes.

agree  B D Finch: Not "the wording", more likely they enjoyed the rhetoric for its entertainment value, rather than wanting to engage with its meaning. Presumably Paul wanted to shock them out of that bubble.
4 mins
  -> Thank you. Yes, that's a better way of describing it.

agree  Yasutomo Kanazawa
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agree  Tony M
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agree  Jacek Kloskowski
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agree  AllegroTrans
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agree  Ashutosh Mitra
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agree  magdadh
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agree  Rachel Fell
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agree  Robert Forstag
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agree  writeaway
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agree  acetran
22 hrs
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agree  Yvonne Gallagher: well yes, but Charles is right about the degradation...
1 day 6 hrs
  -> Тhank you.

agree  Erzsébet Czopyk
1 day 6 hrs
  -> Тhank you.
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