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#212 (permalink) Fri Aug 18, 2006 18:58 pm Trying to improve mental disorder :) |
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Hi Amy,
It’s me again. :) Thank you for your response.
Going back to the Michael sentence :) and the two (previous-page) amendments... Could you say is there any difference between using 'did... get' (Alan’s variant) and 'do... have' (your variant) in this case?
I have a vague feeling that - generally - such a use of Present / Past tense would slightly change the meaning (putting emphasis on a bit different aspects), but I myself cannot catch it clearly…
Or not?
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By the way, I can also say that just now, when I’m writing the text, Microsoft Word (with its built-in 'general rules') is quite displeased with both sentences, disapproving prepositions-in-the-end and strongly recommending to me to remove from at all :) Despite the Churchill’s phrase I’ve fed to it - twice. :) _________________ It’s impossible to learn swimming without entering the water… |
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#213 (permalink) Fri Aug 18, 2006 19:13 pm Knowledge |
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Hi Tamara,
Some points I'd like to raise. Could this interesting discussion be moved to another forum such as What do you want to talk about? or English vocabulary ... as I think it might get lost in this forum. But as we're here, I'll refer to your point about Microsoft Word and dare to disagree with it. Incidentally it won't even accept my surname Townend and insists it should be Townsend!
Back to your point about where do you and where did you? If I asked Where do you get? it would suggest to me that this acquistion is very recent and that it's something you found in a book the other day. Where did you? puts the question seriously in the past, which to me makes better sense because acquisition of a language usually goes back some way.
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#214 (permalink) Fri Aug 18, 2006 19:38 pm Knowledge |
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Where do you get? it would suggest to me that this acquistion is very recent... ... Where did you? puts the question seriously in the past, |
Ah! That's that. Now I see. Thank you, Alan.
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Oh, yes... MS Word puts a great value to its vocabulary. There are lots and lots of funny examples – especially with surnames. :)
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Yes Sir! :) I’ll go to both. :) _________________ It’s impossible to learn swimming without entering the water… |
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#215 (permalink) Fri Aug 18, 2006 21:27 pm Reminded to the famous Rock Band the "Who" |
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Hi Alan!
Now, I feel needed to defend the Microsoft Word. Since first, when I?ve read your surname I felt reminded to the lead-guitar-player Pete Townshend. What a name in the formerly rock-scene and surely in the nowadays music-scene.
Googeling the word Townsend I found some advice to the American Townsend-Mountains, a great area in the Rocky Mountains.
As you are one of the founders of this site and still ( after three years have passed by) are buisy here and always are trustworthy, would you feel anoyed if I think about you as Alan, "the Rock", Townend?
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#216 (permalink) Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:46 am I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! |
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Hi Tamara!
Just to inform you!
Today is the "shooting the wooden bird day"!
Please, wish me good luck for this challange :lol:
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#217 (permalink) Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:33 am Certificated 'Dutch courage'? :-) |
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Hi Michael!
Thank you for informing me, I won't be too anxious if tomorrow you miss the attendance of our forum's Sunday school :) :lol:
I wish you the best luck for this challEnge :lol: :lol: :lol:
Have a nice weekend and... keep Saint Monday :) Tamara _________________ It’s impossible to learn swimming without entering the water… |
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#218 (permalink) Sat Aug 19, 2006 12:06 pm I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! |
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Hi Tamara! Old eagle eye! :wink:
Thank you for best wishes and patiently correcting my mistakes. You see the page turned round, now you always must correct me!! :wink:
But now, I have to leave the site as I?m needed to prepare for the Big Do. You know: Cleaning the nails, brushing the teeth and cutting the hair and so on...... Although, likely after two hours nobody is capable to recognize the other. But the first view is deciding! :lol: :lol:
Tamara, could you please take my buisy-cards from the Sunday-School for me? :roll:
Have a nice weekend, too.
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#219 (permalink) Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:31 am Old dogs, new tricks :-) |
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Hi Michael!
How are you? ;)
What??? How about your gentle manners, you demonstrated just recently?! Where did they flit away - so quickly! - like a hummingbird :)? Gently breezed off? :lol:
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Certainly. Just after you check the spelling with your MS Word :) :lol:
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#220 (permalink) Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:52 am Old dogs, but no new tricks just an evidence of trust |
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Hi Tamara!
Tank you! I?m feeling fine. Like you recognized most of my brothers in arms are old dogs and because of that the recent drinking-contest during the celebration wasn?t that hard I expected-thanks God-, so I?m able to visit the current Sunday-School! :D
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What??? How about your gentle manners, you demonstrated just recently?! Where did they flit away - so quickly! - like a hummingbird :)? Gently breezed off? :lol: |
Tamara, sorry, I didn?t use the word Old in the sense of age but in the sense of trust and reliance -considerring you a rock in the stormy breakers of grammatical mistakes and errors beside your sympatical being- and hope you can accept this explanation? :roll:
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| ..... after you check the spelling with your MS Word :) :lol: |
:oops: I did that before I?ve read this post. Now I dread having stepped into the -at least in Germany well known-scale of grease. :wink:
Good morning Tamara!
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#221 (permalink) Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:34 pm Ta :-) |
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Hello, friends!
Tamara
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Nt t al. :)
Ta. :) _________________ It’s impossible to learn swimming without entering the water… |
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#222 (permalink) Wed Aug 23, 2006 15:49 pm I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! |
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Hi,Tamara
Waoo .............. That great CONGRATULATIONS for return your post.....
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D ......................................... :arrow:
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#223 (permalink) Wed Aug 23, 2006 22:26 pm Ta :-) |
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Hi Tamara!
I really enjoy an atmosphere at your home thread! 8)
Michael
P.S. Abb. is the abb. for abb.! :shock: :lol:
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Nt t al. :)
Ta. :) |
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#224 (permalink) Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:22 am I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! |
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Hi Tamara
It's nice to see you online . and you must know that your thread is one of my favourite threads here .
Hope you a good day .
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#225 (permalink) Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:23 am Putting hair up :) |
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Hi Dark :) Glad to see you, especially at dawn :)
Mba, what about your hairstyle? We’re very patient, aren’t we? ;) :) And we love you. :) :oops: :D
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