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Originally Posted by boxcorner
Consequently, in a situation like this I would feel more inclined to use 'absorb', absorb or absorb, instead of "absorb". Not sure which is correct though. Perhaps you, or others, could educate me.
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I'm not a native English speaker, but I was taught that in (British) English the first ( 'absorb' ) means that the use of the verb is figurative, the second and third (
absorb,
absorb) are a way to stress the importance of the word in a sentence (the bold character also means that "it should be read with a louder voice", as my teacher said), and the last ( "absorb" ) means that you are quoting someone else's words.
It's a bit different from my native language (Italian) where you use the last ( "absorb" ) also when you mean a figurative use of the word.