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2020-06-16 at 6:52 PM UTCThere is absolutely no way you've ever attended any kind of school.
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2020-06-16 at 6:55 PM UTCwhich means im a lot more self taught than you.
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2020-06-16 at 6:59 PM UTC
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2020-06-16 at 7 PM UTCI wish your English was better so you could insult me better. I can give you private lessons if you want.
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2020-06-16 at 7:15 PM UTC
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2020-06-16 at 7:33 PM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny sure.
tell me why there needs to be do and does ?
I already explained this to you before.
'Do' is present simple and 'does' is present perfect.
"I do not speak Chinese," said Vinny.
In this sentence, you are talking about the present tense. You do not at the current moment speak Chinese.
"Vinny does not speak English either"
In this sentence, you are talking about the present tense, but also the past. It is an ongoing thing. You don't speak English now, and you didn't before either.
Now go ahead and try to fill in these blanks. Try to think about whether the statement is talking about something that has been happening, or something that is only happening now.
1. I ___ not have any apples.
2. "My son ___ not go to school," said Vinny's mom.
3. Vinny never ___ his homework.
4. ___ Vinny wish he was more like MMR?
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2020-06-16 at 7:42 PM UTC
Originally posted by MexicanMasterRace I already explained this to you before.
'Do' is present simple and 'does' is present perfect.
"I do not speak Chinese," said Vinny.
In this sentence, you are talking about the present tense. You do not at the current moment speak Chinese.
why must i use present simple.
why cant i use present perfect ?
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2020-06-16 at 7:49 PM UTC
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2020-06-16 at 7:51 PM UTC
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2020-06-16 at 8:06 PM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny so theres no logic in being grammartically correct.
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Well I just explained the logic to you. Do you not understand the difference between present simple and present perfect?
The main thing tho is just getting a sense for when to use it and understanding what sounds natural.
My dad has been in this country since he was 20, with 6 years prior of English classes. ~40 years of knowing the language and he STILL fucks it up sometimes or doesn't know a word.
My favorite fuckup was when he tried to use logic to make a joke. In Spanish, the word 'pedo' means fart. And he knew that the suffix -phile was someone who was o.bsessed with something. You can see where this is going. My dad called my sister a pedophile. It was fantastic. -
2020-06-16 at 8:16 PM UTC
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2020-06-16 at 8:35 PM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny i understand it as thats just how the way everybody do it.
not the logic behind it.
That's the logic. To distinguish between things that are only happening now and things that have been happening. English is very good at using very little words to get a message across. In other languages there is either implied meaning or you would have to clarify. Like 开 for example. There is an implied future tense just by using the word and all you have to do is apply a subject.
明天开学 for example. 'tomorrow start school'
明天开学吗? 'tomorrow start school?'
In English you cannot do it so simply. You can say "School starts tomorrow" but you cannot just say "School starts tomorrow?" You have to clarify because nouns do not carry tense in English. You will be understood, yes, but it is not proper grammar and people will look at you like you are retarded. You need to apply the tense. "Does school start tomorrow?" -
2020-06-17 at 5:15 AM UTC
Originally posted by street_carp In your personal opinion aldra, what the actual fuck is an abo? Are they black? Are they Asian? Every time I see them on TV they hurt my fucking brain.
sometimes I wonder if they were a bizarre british dysgenics project.
it's well known that the white settlers massacred them relentlessly and given how many I've met and how many of those are almost certainly retarded... it doesn't even seem statistically possible -
2020-06-17 at 5:23 AM UTC
Originally posted by MexicanMasterRace That's the logic. To distinguish between things that are only happening now and things that have been happening. English is very good at using very little words to get a message across. In other languages there is either implied meaning or you would have to clarify. Like 开 for example. There is an implied future tense just by using the word and all you have to do is apply a subject.
no, it dont.
for example, theres no difference whatsoever between
"he don't like buttsecks"
and
"he doesnt like buttsecks".明天开学 for example. 'tomorrow start school'
明天开学吗? 'tomorrow start school?'
In English you cannot do it so simply. You can say "School starts tomorrow" but you cannot just say "School starts tomorrow?" You have to clarify because nouns do not carry tense in English. You will be understood, yes, but it is not proper grammar and people will look at you like you are retarded. You need to apply the tense. "Does school start tomorrow?"
bad example. totally unrelated and irelevant. -
2020-06-17 at 5:24 AM UTC
Originally posted by aldra sometimes I wonder if they were a bizarre british dysgenics project.
it's well known that the white settlers massacred them relentlessly and given how many I've met and how many of those are almost certainly retarded… it doesn't even seem statistically possible
arsetralians have rabbit problems too. -
2020-06-17 at 6:03 PM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny no, it dont.
for example, theres no difference whatsoever between
"he don't like buttsecks"
and
"he doesnt like buttsecks".
bad example. totally unrelated and irelevant.
Not really you just don't understand how it works. I'm explaining to you that nouns do not carry tense like they do in many languages like Chinese. In Hindi you have to use specific vowels to dictate tense and it's essentially just conjugation like you see in Spanish. All of it makes sense logically once you understand the system.
Those sentences are not the same either. There is a difference.
You wouldn't say "he don't like buttsex" unless you're a hood rat. Again, pay attention to tense. If you're talking about preferences its present perfect. You did not like the thing before, and you don't like it now.
If you were to pose the question directly then present simple can be used as you are answering the question in that moment and not talking about the history of whether or not this person likes buttsex.
"He doesn't eat apples, do you eat apples?"
"I don't eat apples, I eat ass."
Your problem is as I said, you don't understand how to use tense correctly. Whether you think the distinction is 'logical' is irrelevant. You will be assimilated. -
2020-06-17 at 6:38 PM UTC
Originally posted by MexicanMasterRace You wouldn't say "he don't like buttsex" unless you're a hood rat. Again, pay attention to tense. If you're talking about preferences its present perfect. You did not like the thing before, and you don't like it now.
how is "he dont like buttsecks" any different from "he doesnt like buttsecks" other than it isnt the norm ? -
2020-06-17 at 9:48 PM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny how is "he dont like buttsecks" any different from "he doesnt like buttsecks" other than it isnt the norm ?
Because in the first example you are using tense incorrectly. Tense in English is not just past, present, and future. I typed out a whole thing about it but I didn't want to confuse you by giving other examples. -
2020-06-17 at 10:05 PM UTC
Originally posted by MexicanMasterRace Because in the first example you are using tense incorrectly. Tense in English is not just past, present, and future. I typed out a whole thing about it but I didn't want to confuse you by giving other examples.
but does the incorrect usage of the tenses changed the essence of the sentence ? -
2020-06-18 at 12:20 AM UTC
