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shuntang

Maybe English is incapable of viewing the future in any other way. Wade through this if you can: http://equinox.rutgers.edu/papers/WernerThesis.pdf but don't expect me to explain half of it. What I could understand was very good stuff. Branching and Broomsticks! Thanks for the tips. I too saw a lot...

shuntang

The two posters in your link have a very similar style to each other. They could almost have been written by the same person. What's more they both sound uncannily just like.... let me think for a moment.... it'll come to me soon. Sorry, I forgot to have reported I asked the questions in several fo...

shuntang

By going to proficiency classes instead of discussing English with people who give them. By asking straightforward Y/N questions: "Is it correct to say.........?" or "Are A and B the same? " or simple questions like "What's the difference between X and Y? " You'd be treated with the utmost respect ...

shuntang

In the following link a visitor has an interesting viewpoint about the future time and the past time:

http://www.antimoon.com/forum/t144.htm

shuntang

Do you notice there are new visitors here? What if they do want to talk to me? If old visitors always put on a hostility against me, how will new visitors talk to me? How can I get any learning?

shuntang

Lorikeet wrote:Heh the second one has a huge quote from this forum....including quotes from respondents--so have we gone full circle yet?

The discussion you say was in May2004. In any forum, any thread more than a year cannot now be functional anymore.

shuntang

I search for my name and there are two more links:

http://forum.onestopenglish.com/forum_p ... =shun+tang

http://forum.developingteachers.com/vie ... 093f18cc7d

shuntang

I got busted? Or did it prove they discussed without filthy languages, even they disliked me?

shuntang

metal56 wrote: Have you read The Good Samaritan? Luke 10:25-37.

What has all this got to do with language learning?

I've just read it. You are correct. Luke 10:25-37 has nothing to do with language learning.

shuntang

"As for the same future happening, different persons will see different degrees of certainty. You tell me "John is going to marry June", and I will pass the words to others, "John will marry June." As for John himself, he is so certain and will say, "I marry/am marrying June next weekend" "People a...

shuntang

In our country, if a foreigner learns Chinese and speak our language poorly, we don't blame or "warn" her or him. Even if he/she sits on his/her ass all day and does nothing to improve his ability to speak English? Here is a small picture of the world. If you show weakness, others will tread on you...

shuntang

No. No. It's extremely unlikely that anyone, having been told that John was going to marry June would then use "will" subsequently to pass the information on. It simply doesn't work like that. Nor is that present simple "I marry" adequate. It's not some ranking of certainty that determines which fu...

shuntang

metal56 wrote:
shuntang wrote:In our country, if a foreigner learns Chinese and speak our language poorly, we don't blame or "warn" her or him.
Even if he/she sits on his/her ass all day and does nothing to improve his ability to speak English?
I have my own promise to keep.

shuntang

In our country, if a foreigner learns Chinese and speak our language poorly, we don't blame or "warn" her or him. The poorness is expected. We encourage them to speak or write more. I think this happens also in other countries. Actually, you can search my name and find my old discussions in some oth...

shuntang

I'm not talking about plans. I'm talking about "The next leap year will happen in 2008" which seems as good if not better than "going to happen" and "is happening" . It's an odd use of a modal verb and all that implies. As for the same future happening, different persons will see different degrees ...

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