Comment by xboxnolifes 2 months ago Each one of these has slightly different readings in my eyes. 7 comments xboxnolifes Reply hyghjiyhu 2 months ago Unlike the last variant, the first two imply there was some quantity of work and it was all completed.I don't really see the difference between the two though. thaumasiotes 2 months ago Well, option 1 implies that there was something else going on before the event described in the sentence. Option 2 is neutral about that.Compare:1. I did the work for that last week.2. I proceeded to do the work for that last week.Sentence 2 strikes me as questionably grammatical. It needs to be proceeding from something in the context. unsupp0rted 2 months ago Not different enough to make it worth using anything but the simplest one. monster_truck 2 months ago I'm of the notion that my certainty is not sufficiently concrete to discover myself in the realm of agreement overfeed 2 months ago Perhaps yet another American cultural artifact. One that - if I were to guess - originated from the Calvinist disdain for ostentiousness. unsupp0rted 2 months ago Yes yes, anybody who prefers plain, easily parsed wording is American.Wording? Don't you mean diction? 1 reply →
hyghjiyhu 2 months ago Unlike the last variant, the first two imply there was some quantity of work and it was all completed.I don't really see the difference between the two though. thaumasiotes 2 months ago Well, option 1 implies that there was something else going on before the event described in the sentence. Option 2 is neutral about that.Compare:1. I did the work for that last week.2. I proceeded to do the work for that last week.Sentence 2 strikes me as questionably grammatical. It needs to be proceeding from something in the context.
thaumasiotes 2 months ago Well, option 1 implies that there was something else going on before the event described in the sentence. Option 2 is neutral about that.Compare:1. I did the work for that last week.2. I proceeded to do the work for that last week.Sentence 2 strikes me as questionably grammatical. It needs to be proceeding from something in the context.
unsupp0rted 2 months ago Not different enough to make it worth using anything but the simplest one. monster_truck 2 months ago I'm of the notion that my certainty is not sufficiently concrete to discover myself in the realm of agreement overfeed 2 months ago Perhaps yet another American cultural artifact. One that - if I were to guess - originated from the Calvinist disdain for ostentiousness. unsupp0rted 2 months ago Yes yes, anybody who prefers plain, easily parsed wording is American.Wording? Don't you mean diction? 1 reply →
monster_truck 2 months ago I'm of the notion that my certainty is not sufficiently concrete to discover myself in the realm of agreement
overfeed 2 months ago Perhaps yet another American cultural artifact. One that - if I were to guess - originated from the Calvinist disdain for ostentiousness. unsupp0rted 2 months ago Yes yes, anybody who prefers plain, easily parsed wording is American.Wording? Don't you mean diction? 1 reply →
unsupp0rted 2 months ago Yes yes, anybody who prefers plain, easily parsed wording is American.Wording? Don't you mean diction? 1 reply →
Unlike the last variant, the first two imply there was some quantity of work and it was all completed.
I don't really see the difference between the two though.
Well, option 1 implies that there was something else going on before the event described in the sentence. Option 2 is neutral about that.
Compare:
1. I did the work for that last week.
2. I proceeded to do the work for that last week.
Sentence 2 strikes me as questionably grammatical. It needs to be proceeding from something in the context.
Not different enough to make it worth using anything but the simplest one.
I'm of the notion that my certainty is not sufficiently concrete to discover myself in the realm of agreement
Perhaps yet another American cultural artifact. One that - if I were to guess - originated from the Calvinist disdain for ostentiousness.
Yes yes, anybody who prefers plain, easily parsed wording is American.
Wording? Don't you mean diction?
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