... to a list of five countries topped by Vietnam

[tufguy]

Modi government has ordered Brahmos aerospace, which produces the missile to accelarate sales to a list of five countries topped by Vietnam.

What is the meaning of "topped" here?

 

[Boris Tatarenko]

Re: Brahmos.

Vietnam is the first country in that list. Vietnam is at the top of the list.

 

[Rover_KE]

Re: Brahmos.

Where did you find this sentence? The punctuation is all wrong.

 

[emsr2d2]

There's also one spelling error and a capitalisation error in it. Whoever wrote that didn't do a good job.

 

[tufguy]

Re: Brahmos.

Where did you find this sentence? The punctuation is all wrong.

Actually it's not the full sentence. I read it on the internet. I capitalised "bhramos" because its the name of the missile.

 

[Rover_KE]

Re: Brahmos.

I capitalised "bhramos" because it's the name of the [STRIKE]missile[/STRIKE] company​.

So why did you spell it wrong and fail to capitalise it just then? This is the sort of carelessness which infuriates us so much.

Actually, the company is called BrahMos Aerospace. You could have discovered this like I did with just a few extra keystrokes.

 

[emsr2d2]

Re: Brahmos.

I was referring to the non-capitalisation of the word "Aerospace" which forms part of the company's name, as shown by Rover above.

 

[emsr2d2]

I have found the sentence online and the original did not have the misspelling of "accelerate".

 

[SoothingDave]

I can see how a missile would accelerate sales. Get those reluctant customers to sign on.

 

[tufguy]

I can see how a missile would accelerate sales. Get those reluctant customers to sign on.

You mean that these missiles are being sold forcefully.

 

[emsr2d2]

You mean that these missiles are being sold forcefully.

Are you trying to tell SoothingDave what he means?

 

[SoothingDave]

You mean that these missiles are being sold forcefully.

No, I mean this "which produces the missile to accelarate sales" is saying that people use the missiles in order to "accelerate" their sales.

I am joking. The way it reads is that people threaten other people with a missile in order to make sales.

 

[Raymott]

And that's because the descriptive clause "which produces the missile" is missing the second comma.

 

[tufguy]

Are you trying to tell SoothingDave what he means?

I was asking what exactly he meant.

 

[Raymott]

I was asking what exactly he meant.

Do you see why your post doesn't look like a question?

 

[Tdol]

You mean that these missiles are being sold forcefully.

You mean that these missiles are being sold forcefully.
You mean that these missiles are being sold forcefully?
Do you mean that these missiles are being sold forcefully?

The first is a statement, not a question.

 

[tufguy]

You mean that these missiles are being sold forcefully.
You mean that these missiles are being sold forcefully?
Do you mean that these missiles are being sold forcefully?

The first is a statement, not a question.

I thought that he meant that but I wasn't sure about it.

 

[Matthew Wai]

You may say 'You mean that these missiles are being sold forcefully, right?'

 

[Tdol]

In colloquial speech, if you're voice goes up at the end, it can be enough to turn a statement into a question, even without a word like right.