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Hi Volcano
I'm not really sure what you're trying to say, but it seems to me that you might mean this:
I miss not talking to you. / I miss not being able to talk to you.
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| Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:23 pm Adverb Help (I have been missing you by not speaking/talking) |
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Yes probably it doesn't make much sense but i meant:
"I have been missing you silently" So what can i use here instead of "silently"
How about "I have been missing you without speaking" ? |
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| Sat Oct 20, 2007 23:22 pm Adverb Help (I have been missing you by not speaking/talking) |
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| 'I have been missing you silently/in silence/secretly' sounds more natural, in my opinion. |
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| Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:13 am Adverb Help (I have been missing you by not speaking/talking) |
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How does one miss someone aloud? 'Missing' is an inner sensation.
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| Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:59 am Adverb Help (I have been missing you by not speaking/talking) |
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| Mister Micawber wrote: | .
How does one miss someone aloud? 'Missing' is an inner sensation.
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Oh no! Here's another thing for my head to work on... |
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| Sun Oct 21, 2007 11:14 am Adverb Help (I have been missing you by not speaking/talking) |
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Hi,
I have ben missing you inwardly -
Any good?
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| Sun Oct 21, 2007 12:59 pm Adverb Help (I have been missing you by not speaking/talking) |
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| Alan wrote: | Hi,
I have ben missing you inwardly -
Any good?
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Thanks for your suggestions.This is also good.But I wonder if i can give the same meaning in the poem.Think a love and someone who does not speak anymore because of he lost her.So he has only been missing her "adverb".I asked how about "without speaking".Can i use "without speaking" as adverb here.Because if we ask how he has only been missing her,answer is "without speaking" is it suitable here? |
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| Sun Oct 21, 2007 13:20 pm Adverb Help (I have been missing you by not speaking/talking) |
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He has been silently pining.
(Perhaps for the fjords.)
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| Sun Oct 21, 2007 22:40 pm Adverb Help (I have been missing you by not speaking/talking) |
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| Mister Micawber wrote: | .
He has been silently pining.
(Perhaps for the fjords.)
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Thank you Mister Micawber
"My half has remained on you"
"My half has stayed on you"
Which one is correct ? |
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| Sun Oct 21, 2007 23:44 pm Adverb Help (I have been missing you by not speaking/talking) |
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Sorry, but neither statement has any meaning for me, Volcano. What are you trying to say?
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| Mon Oct 22, 2007 0:07 am Adverb Help (I have been missing you by not speaking/talking) |
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| Mister Micawber wrote: | .
Sorry, but neither statement has any meaning for me, Volcano. What are you trying to say?
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Tell me wherever you are now
My other half remained on you
I can't live if you don't come
My tomorrows remained on you
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| Mon Oct 22, 2007 0:15 am Adverb Help (I have been missing you by not speaking/talking) |
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Can you tell me in conversational language what the poet is trying to express? In the first place, past tense ('remained') doesn't seem appropriate. What other half? She is his other half? His future depends on her?
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| Mon Oct 22, 2007 0:29 am Adverb Help (I have been missing you by not speaking/talking) |
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| Mister Micawber wrote: | .
Can you tell me in conversational language what the poet is trying to express? In the first place, past tense ('remained') doesn't seem appropriate. What other half? She is his other half? His future depends on her?
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It express that after she left him he says that she took something from him like his heart.Other half= half of body or smt like this,she is not his other half here.His future depends on her? Yes... |
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