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shadowing ==?
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2012/06/15 - 9:27am
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when i was reading an article in a website, I noticed that the wrtiter had used that word with this meaning="to re-say what someone else has just said".

Is that really correct?

I am in doubt because that guy  wasn't   a native speaker.

I  couldn't  find that meaning in my dictionary.

Thanks for any comment on this.

please help.

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2012/06/15 - 9:42am
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Welcome to the forum.

I've never heard shadowing used that way. But since, as you say, the person was not a native speaker, my guess is he confused it with echoing.

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2012/06/15 - 12:16pm
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Perhaps they meant to say echoing.

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2012/06/15 - 12:42pm
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Glenn said:

Perhaps they meant to say echoing.

My first impression on reading that was our posts must have crossed. Then it hit me. You have a wry sense of humor.   :)

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2012/06/15 - 1:17pm
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:-D

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