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    Catalan is a regional language spoken primarily in the Spanish Autonomous Communities of Cataluña and Valencia. Cataluña is known in English as Catalonia and in Catalan as Catalunya. It is also spoken in the Balearic Islands, in small parts of southern France, and small parts of southern Italy. It is a Romance language, just as Spanish is. Others may feel free to disagree on this point, but having studied some Catalan, I would say that it is right in the middle of Spanish, French, and Italian. Some examples of the differences, Spanish followed by Catalan, followed by English: Chocolate, Xocolate, Chocolate Calle, Carrer, Street Poco, Poc, Little Soy, Soc, I am As you can see, the languages are quite similar, but they are indeed distinct languages.
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    Azimux is correct, but keep in mind that the passive voice is not used very often in English, and this sentence in particular sounds very strange in the passive.
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    Well if you want to replace a long series of nouns, you have some options. For example "peppers, carrots, potatoes, beans, lettuce, celery, tomatoes, apples, limes, and pears" could be replaced by "peppers, carrots, etc." "etc." is short for "et cetera" which is Latin for "and the rest." In an informal context, you could say "peppers, carrots, and whatnot," or "peppers, carrots, and the like." There are plenty of options to choose from. However, if you mean that you want to replace an entire clause, and it's not something you can do with a pronoun, then English doesn't do that.
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    I think that in the United States, the culture of violence has much, much more to do with poverty and the culture associated with firearms. Video games are not to blame either. People seem to think that the world is more dangerous now than it was forty years ago, but people are just more aware of the danger now. That has to do with changes in media which have taken place in recent decades, especially the advent of "action news."
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    A man of letters is a man who devotes his professional life to the language arts. This could mean writing, studying, criticism, etc. His counterpart is a man of science.
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    Well now that the sentence has been revised, it makes sense. Because of advents like modern medicine, humans can now survive things which would have killed us in the past, and so natural selection doesn't act very strongly on humans anymore. That's not to say that we aren't evolving, just that we are evolving slowly. However, Eliot, there is no top of the evolutionary ladder. There is a common misconception that humans are the pinnacle of biological adaptation. However, all species are equally well adapted to their own niches. Humans are at the top of the food chain though.
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