Timeline for Is "get a better understanding about some concept/mechanism" a grammatical, idiomatic and clear expression?
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| Sep 14, 2019 at 4:04 | answer | added | dwilli | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Sep 11, 2019 at 16:50 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | This is one of those relatively uncommon contexts where the older / more formal way of phrasing things is actually shorter and simpler than the idiomatic standard today. If Charles Dickens were speaking, he'd probably say I am trying to better understand this procedure... Note that although trying to get a better understanding is fine, there's definitely something wrong with this procedure of Python code to be generated. But I don't understand exactly what you mean there, so I can't say how it should be expressed. | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 14:24 | comment | added | user3395 | The idiomatic preposition that follows understanding in that phrase is of, and by a large margin at that should the metric be the frequency of occurrence in Google's corpus (represented by the Google Books Ngram Viewer chart). | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 13:23 | history | asked | user100111 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |