"buy" should it be "wanted to buy" (1 Viewer)

[7th Sign]

just thought the wording of this section was a bit off????

 

[santaslayer]

I'm not understanding?

 

[Frigid]

just thought the wording of this section was a bit off????

that's a very interesting point you raised there.

actually, out of curiosity, there is nothing grammatically or idiomatically incorrect with the terms "buy and sell". this is because the expression is a hendiadys.

another example:

Mr DMJ Bennett QC: "If one takes the classic hendiadys, talking of a cup of tea, that it is nice and hot, meaning, of course, not that it is nice and that it is hot, but that it is of a particularly desirable temperature; it is nicely hot, if one likes. If one changes the word “nice” to “strong” so one does not have a recognised phrase “strong and hot”, then one would not say the characteristics of the original composite phrase apply to the new one."

XYZ v Commonwealth of Australia [2005] HCATrans 957

 

[tactic]

Point taken, I'll fix it up thanks

 

[mr_brightside]

"Wanting to buy and sell"

?

*shrugs*
doesnt bother me

 

[tactic]

Don't you people have anything better to do then to argue?