Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Claim

I wrote this phrase "I can't claim anybody could spend", but now I'm feeling 
uncertain about it... Should I have said "I can't claim anybody to be able 
to..."? 

 to..."?
to.. spend? Again, would that be the whole sentence? I feel more
inclined to
say this is wrong.

 Is that the whole sentence? It seems like a strange thing to say.
No, it isn't. It was: "I deem myself balanced enough not to claim anybody 
here around could spend his/her time on boring books". 

 here around could spend his/her time on boring books".
Sounds ok

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enough ... not
here ... around
all of them sound wrong together
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Phew! Thanks ;-) 

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mymo.sunshin...@libero.it
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If you don't mind me saying, it is quite a mouthful ;0)
An English person would say "around here" not "here around" Although you 
can say hereabouts if you like; it means "around here" :o))
"I deem myself balanced enough....", "deem" is rather "literary" & can 
sound pretentious. In contemporary speech one would probably say:
 
"I feel I am balanced enough..." or 
"I am experienced enough....." or simply 
"I know enough....."
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 sound pretentious.
I think "deem" is ok. I probably wouldn't use it surrounded by tatooed
school dropouts, but then I probably wouldn't say ANYTHING in that
situation.

 sound pretentious. In contemporary speech one would probably say:
I *did* have to sound pretentious when I wrote that phrase. However, thank 
you for suggesting some other expressions.