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Does this sound natural?
“I prefer direct screen phones to curved screen phones.”
Does this sound natural?
“I prefer direct screen phones to curved screen phones.”
“I prefer direct screen phones to curved screen phones.”
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@Lucas_20 Alright, well maybe that’s just a term I’ve never heard personally. I’m not sure if other people are familiar with it, but if they are, then your sentence is fine. If not, then this is what I would say:
I prefer phones that have straight/flat screens rather than curved ones.
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It’s grammatically correct, but I’m not sure what a direct screen phone is.
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@bsloan7 Good to see you again. 😆 A direct screen phone is a phone that has a straight screen, like iPhone. iPhone always has straight screens. A curved screen like Samsung, they almost always have curved screens.
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@Lucas_20 Alright, well maybe that’s just a term I’ve never heard personally. I’m not sure if other people are familiar with it, but if they are, then your sentence is fine. If not, then this is what I would say:
I prefer phones that have straight/flat screens rather than curved ones.
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@Lucas_20 “Direct” doesn’t really make sense to me here, but like I was saying, maybe I’m just unfamiliar with it being used to describe a phone screen.
Now that I think of it though, I’ve never participated in a conversation where I needed to describe phone screens outside of the material they’re made from or them being sensitive or cracked/damaged in some way 🤔
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@Lucas_20 " I prefer flat screen displays to curved screen displays in smartphones"
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@bsloan7 Alright. In China, we also don’t often talk about phone screens, but we sometimes do talk about it.
For example, I might say to my friends I like phones that have flat/straight screens so Samsung is not a good choice for me. Thank you for your help!
For example, I might say to my friends I like phones that have flat/straight screens so Samsung is not a good choice for me. Thank you for your help!
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@Lucas_20 In the context of smartphones, display and screen are the same thing. Screen is just a generic term of display.
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@julian_03 So “display” is more of a technical term, while “screen” is preferred by native speakers in daily conversation. Thank you!
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