← Back to context Comment by xboxnolifes 10 months ago Each one of these has slightly different readings in my eyes. 7 comments xboxnolifes Reply hyghjiyhu 10 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 10 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 10 months ago Not different enough to make it worth using anything but the simplest one. monster_truck 10 months ago I'm of the notion that my certainty is not sufficiently concrete to discover myself in the realm of agreement overfeed 10 months ago Perhaps yet another American cultural artifact. One that - if I were to guess - originated from the Calvinist disdain for ostentiousness. unsupp0rted 10 months ago Yes yes, anybody who prefers plain, easily parsed wording is American.Wording? Don't you mean diction? 1 reply →
hyghjiyhu 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago Not different enough to make it worth using anything but the simplest one. monster_truck 10 months ago I'm of the notion that my certainty is not sufficiently concrete to discover myself in the realm of agreement overfeed 10 months ago Perhaps yet another American cultural artifact. One that - if I were to guess - originated from the Calvinist disdain for ostentiousness. unsupp0rted 10 months ago Yes yes, anybody who prefers plain, easily parsed wording is American.Wording? Don't you mean diction? 1 reply →
monster_truck 10 months ago I'm of the notion that my certainty is not sufficiently concrete to discover myself in the realm of agreement
overfeed 10 months ago Perhaps yet another American cultural artifact. One that - if I were to guess - originated from the Calvinist disdain for ostentiousness. unsupp0rted 10 months ago Yes yes, anybody who prefers plain, easily parsed wording is American.Wording? Don't you mean diction? 1 reply →
unsupp0rted 10 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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