Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2019 August 14

= August 14 =

"from last one century."
Are the structures "from last one century", "from last one year", correct and standard English? Somehow I see it more often used by Pakistani speakers. Would it be like "since last century" or "since last year"? --C est moi anton (talk) 19:35, 14 August 2019 (UTC)


 * It may be correct in Pakistani English (I can't imagine people just make up such a construction), but it's certainly not correct in standard English. I'd be guessing as to its meaning.  --   Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  19:51, 14 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Full context: "Natural languages have been an area of interest from last one century. In the late nineteen sixties and seventies, so many researchers as Noam Chomsky (1965) [5], Maron, M. E. and Kuhns, J. L (1960) [6], Chow, C., & Liu, C (1968) [7] contributed in the area of information retrieval from natural languages. "C est moi anton (talk) 19:53, 14 August 2019 (UTC)


 * "... so many researchers as Noam Chomsky". I presume that means "many researchers, such as Noam Chomsky".  --   Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  19:57, 14 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Well, it stands literally like that in the original article. I assume their mastery of the English language was not that high. Quite amusing for a published work. Authors are one Portuguese and one Pakistani.C est moi anton (talk) 20:48, 14 August 2019 (UTC)