Jul 11, 2002 16:46
21 yrs ago
English term

any one of self

Non-PRO English Bus/Financial
The financial transactions can be conducted by remote operation of the remote device to result in the debiting of a financial data base record associated with an instructing participating system member and in the crediting of a different financial data base record associated with any one of self, another system member and a merchant.

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+7
7 mins
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any one of the following: the participating system member itself, another system member, or ...

a merchant.

The English is a bit awkward, but that's what it means.
Peer comment(s):

agree Bill Greendyk
10 mins
agree John Kinory (X) : a BIT awkward? {LOL} indeed. But you parsed it, I think.
25 mins
guess this manual writer never heard of the Plain English movement...
agree Paul Mably (X) : sounds like a really bad translation!
1 hr
agree cheungmo : That's one of the reasons you always end a list with yourself. As in "we went to the beach. Bill, Mary, Joe, and me."
1 hr
agree mickymayes
7 hrs
agree Chris Rowson (X) : It´s a translationn from German, isn´t it? By a German.
9 hrs
agree AhmedAMS
11 days
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+1
9 mins

"any one of person" or "any authorized user"

Alternatives to any one of self:

any one of person

or

any authorized user

This might be more accurate and easier to understand, but I'm not sure if it is correct for your field of writing.
Peer comment(s):

agree Ingrid Petit
46 mins
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15 mins

same instead of self?

it would make more sense to me if you were to read "self" as "same"
but it is certainly a very Germanic sentence.

paola l m
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