Rusticated, Echo, digestible.

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Please help me here:

  1. The youngster had been ‘rusticated’ from school for breaking the two front teeth of another boy.
  2. I echo this feeling and add"may all who read these books and internalise them, achieve success in life".
  3. This book tells you in a simple,digestible language how to demolish the barriers on the way to success…

Please what is meaning of the hyphenated and the boldened text.

Son Eben.

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  1. rusticated = suspended, but this is not a common expression. I believe it is only used in a small number of elite universities. Most people wouldn’t use it. Many people would not, I suspect, understand it.

  2. ‘echo’ here = agree with. Just as an echo copies the original sound, the person doing the echoing has the same feelings as the original speaker.

  3. ‘digestible’ here = easily read and remembered,

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Hi, Bees.

If I’m getting you with the use of echo can I use it in the following?

  1. I perfectly echo with the author about his views.

  2. I don’t echo with what you said please.

  3. He suspended himself to death with rope. Can I use ‘rusticated’ in this sense?

I heard someone using re-echo in his expression is it a good word to mean something at all?

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  1. I echo the author’s views (perfectly).
  2. sounds a little off, but if you were to use it , it would be, “I don’t echo what you said”.

re-echo simply means repeat the echo. It would be a redundancy in most contexts, as an echo is a repeat.

He was rusticated is DEFINITELY wrong in this context. When a person is suspended, he is banned from attending school/classes for a length of time. It has nothing to do with being hung.
‘Suspended’ is the wrong term for describing someone who hangs himself and ‘with a rope’ is a redundancy. People would say,
He hanged himself and died.

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There is a difference between the two past participles /past tenses ‘hung’ and ‘hanged’. A picture is hung on the wall. A person condemned to death is hanged by the neck.

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Thank you for the correction. I wasn’t concentrating on that aspect.

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Hi, Beees If I may ask what do mean by the use of redundancy.

I quite often hear folks using suspension ın this way:

  1. He killed himself by suspending himself with a rope.
    What do make of this?
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Hi, Beees.
More practise on echo:

  1. I dont echo what you said.
  2. It would be a gross disrespect not to echo what the man said.
  3. I echo you. ( meaning I agree with you).

Please mark them.
Thanks.

Son Eben.

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There’s not much point in mentioning it was a rope. That’s what one would expect to be used. Would he have hanged himself with a pistol?

‘He was suspended by a rope’ is common ( but does not necessarily mean the rope was around his neck).
‘He suspended himself’ is far from common.

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‘I echo what you say’, not ‘I echo you’.

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Hi Beees, thanks.

But can I replace redundancy with “unecessary” within the previous context you used it in?

Well beees, I perfectly understand your explanation of “redundancy” but just to remind you, you used it regarding the RE-ECHO explanation.

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I used it regarding both expressions and you asked what I meant by it in the same post as you commented about the hanged man.

I had already explained why it was redundant in the case of the echo. “An echo is a repeat.”