sentence

English translation: Yes, the sentence is incomplete

09:11 Jan 10, 2004

English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Law/Patents - Law: Contract(s) / contracts

English term or phrase: sentence

I think there's something missing in this sentence, but I would appreciate your help to be sure I'm not interpreting it wrongly before contacting my client.
Thank you.
"Explaining further, the President said, that awarding such contract to a firm who has also been found wanting on many groups with regard to computer systems"

Elena Miguel KudoZ activity Questions: 140 (6 open) (2 without valid answers) Answers: 224 Spain
Local time: 02:38

Selected answer:Yes, the sentence is incomplete

Explanation:
There is definitely something missing, not sure if from the end though. It might also be a translation, since there should not be a comma before "that" in proper English.

Selected response from:

Ildiko Santana
United States
Local time: 17:38

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5 +5

Yes, the sentence is incomplete

Ildiko Santana

5 +1

Replace groups with grounds.

hira

3 +2

Explaining further..

jerrie

What they may have meant

Alaa Zeineldine

Answers

12 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

Yes, the sentence is incomplete

Explanation:
There is definitely something missing, not sure if from the end though. It might also be a translation, since there should not be a comma before "that" in proper English.

Ildiko Santana
United States
Local time: 17:38
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Hungarian,

English
PRO pts in category: 12

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23 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

Explaining further..

Explanation:
Explaining further, the President said that awarding this type of contract to a firm who has been found wanting (fallen short/lacked knowledge/not done the job properly) by many groups (committees, members)/in many areas with regard to computer systems....would be inadvisable...

This sounds like a translation and the conclusion, outcome of the Presidents explanation is missing!

jerrie
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:38
Native speaker of:

English

42 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Replace groups with grounds.

Explanation:
The sentence means something if we replace groups with grounds.Otherwise it does not give meaningful idea.
""Explaining further, the President said, that awarding such contract to a firm who has also been found wanting on many grounds with regard to computer systems"

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Note added at 2004-01-10 17:59:10 (GMT)
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Found wanting=Short of expection.
Found wanting on many grounds=Short of expected norms,efficiency etc. on certain grounds.
Grounds=Reasons.

hira
India
Local time: 06:08
Native speaker of:

Assamese,

Bengali

6 hrs confidence:

What they may have meant

Explanation:
Maybe the writer meant something different from the apparent incomplete meaning most of us are reading. Consider "many groups" to be the subject of "wanting" instead of "a firm". The author would be trying to say (in English that has been found wanting:):

"Explaining further, the President said that they are awarding this contract to a firm which is also wanted by many groups as the supplier of their computer systems"

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Note added at 7 hrs 3 mins (2004-01-10 16:15:02 GMT)
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By looking at the quality of English through the rest of the text, you may be able to tell whether this intepretation makes sense. Most likely the author has applied English words to his own language strutures and the result is what you see. For example, you might see repetition of the use of \"on\" in place of \"by\" in indirect speech or overuse of the continuous tense.

Alaa Zeineldine
Egypt
Local time: 02:38
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

English
PRO pts in category: 4

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