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Many people still believe that mental illness, like depression, is the result of self-indulgence.
“いまだに鬱などの心の病を甘えだと考えている人がいる。”と表現したいです。上の英文は通じますか？
Many people still believe that mental illness, like depression, is the result of self-indulgence.
“いまだに鬱などの心の病を甘えだと考えている人がいる。”と表現したいです。上の英文は通じますか？
“いまだに鬱などの心の病を甘えだと考えている人がいる。”と表現したいです。上の英文は通じますか？
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This is pretty good. However, you should not use commas there:
"Many people still believe that mental illness like depression is the result of self-indulgence."
If you use commas around "like depression" then it makes it a side-thought (not part of the main sentence), so it sounds like you are saying:
"Many people still believe that mental illness (in a way that is similar to depression) is the result of self-indulgence."
This is partly because the word "like" can be used to mean a couple of different things. If you want to make it even more clear that you are giving an example, you could also say:
"Many people still believe that mental illness such as depression is the result of self-indulgence."
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@Foogod This isn’t true at all… “like” can also mean “such as”, and when used like that, to provide examples, it requires commas. The only thing that needs to be fixed is correct plural usage:
Many people still believe that mental illnesses, like depression, are…
You can also say “such as depression”
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- English (US)
@Gezzza We are both technically correct. This can *either* be fixed by making "illnesses" plural, or "illness" can be singular but in that case you need to remove the commas (but commas are *not* required here, in either case). Both are valid solutions to the issue. Leaving "illness" singular and using the commas together, however, will generally be interpreted as I described, not as intended.
And I did not say that "like" could not mean "such as". In fact I said that it can have multiple meanings, which is part of the problem in this case, because the choice of meaning here is dependent on subtle nuance. That is why I suggested using "such as" instead, because its meaning is more explicit and therefore harder to be misinterpreted.
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