I like watching TV / to watch TV??

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Duncan Powrie
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Post by Duncan Powrie » Mon Oct 11, 2004 9:22 pm

JuanTwoThree wrote:Complete retraction:

Not more likely to be a gerund but more of a gerund. It makes even less sense now than it did when I wrote it. What I meant was that of "I like dancing" and "I like my dancing" and "I like you/your/somebody dancing" the first is "less" of a gerund, though I know it is one, right it's bollix. I'll stop.
Heh, didn't make much sense when I read it...but lol somehow made something of it! Genius lol!

No, don't stop, Dave's should be a place to get high and post anything and everything, even if it does end up seeming compleet bollix! :P

JuanTwoThree
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Post by JuanTwoThree » Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:39 am

"I like wearing a sturdy face mask when I lance the cat's boils because it stops the pus splashing in my eyes"

Can you hear my unalloyed pleasure? On reflection I don't think so.
Am I getting more American? Gee, I guess so.

Perhaps, as I said, "like" is such a lazy namby-pamby word that its meaning is only defined by a general agreement about the pleasure/duty/convenience of the action then described.

But I was onto something with the shrunken continous vs the "more of a gerund". I just can't remember what it was. I was sober too.

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Post by JuanTwoThree » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:15 pm

Not a portmanteau word, that's another thing. I must have been thinking of "a word means what I choose it to". Also Lewis Carroll though.

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