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Post  Posted: Sep 29, 2007 - 05:34 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

What you have said is hard to understand.
What you have said is hard to be understood.

Which one is correct?

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But SPP has the will to still continue pursuing the path of English learning with all of his warm heart, his high spirit and his enomous passion, though seeing the language as a disgustingly primitive one, even though almost no one cared about the questions SPP had posted and even if no one cares about those SPP will post.

SPP CAN'T BE DISCOURAGED SO EASILY!

SPP is just amusing himself just as everything in existence really is.
A moron as SPP may seem to be, but a true student of Nature as SPP truely is or is trying to be.
SPP is not a pervert.

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Post  Posted: Sep 29, 2007 - 10:52 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

SPP wrote:
What you have said is hard to understand. (correct)
What you have said is hard to be understood. (incorrect - perhaps grammatically correct, however, no one would ever say this)

Which one is correct?


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But SPP has the will to still continue pursuing the path of English learning with all of his warm heart, his high spirit and his enomous passion, though seeing the language as a disgustingly primitive one, even though almost no one cared about the questions SPP had posted and even if no one cares about those SPP will post.

SPP CAN'T BE DISCOURAGED SO EASILY!

SPP is just amusing himself just as everything in existence really is.
A moron as SPP may seem to be, but a true student of Nature as SPP truely is or is trying to be.
SPP is not a pervert.

Mad


A soliloquy is best made using the first person. Talking about yourself in the third person is not usually well received by your listeners (I don't know if you are being serious here or not). Here is a real life example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0w2xTexfAg

Best of luck

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Post  Posted: Sep 30, 2007 - 12:44 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

SPP wrote:
SPP is indeed in need of some helps


Mostly of a mental health professional. Look up "Psychiatrists" and "Anger Management Councellors" in Yellow Pages, some of them even do it free of charge for extreme cases.

Also, google "manners".
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Post  Posted: Sep 30, 2007 - 10:08 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Thank you thank you, nihaoshanghai.

SPP likes to call himself SPP because SPP, who has his own bias, is just a part of the whole thing , if you can understand what I am talking about. SPP is an identity just like your name you refer to yourself. But in essence, you are not an identity, a label or a tag. You are the whole thing meanwhile also are a part of it. That's why SPP always calls himeself SPP because SPP knows his bias and enjoys being with it. If SPP refers the pronoun "I" to himself, it's probable that SPP will lose his bias, maybe even considering himself as nihaoshanghai. Due to lack of understanding, SPP still thinks bias is damn important.

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SPP has said many many times that SPP is not a pervert. It's just that to SPP there is no wrong and no right. And SPP doesn't care about anything except his bias.

What is SPP's bias?
SPP is not a pervert.
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Post  Posted: Sep 30, 2007 - 12:45 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

SPP wrote:


And I am the nasty one here?!
SPP is the nasty one here?!



Which analysis is correct?

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"I" and SPP are one. There is no separation. Maybe you could say SPP is part of "I".

What is a pervert?
A pervert is someone who knows something is bad, stupid, disgusting or whatsoever and still does or wants to do it.
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Sad www.dictionary.com
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Who is your best friend?

My best friend is John.
John is my best friend.

Which one is to be considered as a proper answer according to the question?
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I won't leave without you. = I will not "leave without you".
I won't leave without you. = "Without you" I won't leave.

Which analysis is correct?
Does anyone get what I mean?
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SPP is not a pervert. Does it mean that there is no perversion in SPP?

It's not so. SPP knows in his deepest heart that perversions are inevitably a part of SPP for SPP himself is a part of the whole thing, or all things. And SPP fully accepts it. But SPP has made a choice consciously and subconsciously which SPP deems as his bias.
What is SPP's bias?
SPP is not a pervert.
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Post  Posted: Sep 30, 2007 - 06:55 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

there's no such thing as an unconscious choice SuperPervertedPervert!

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Post  Posted: Sep 30, 2007 - 08:58 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Ignorant sienna.

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Then a question ensues.
Who decides what is perversion and what is not? Is there some kind of criterion?

In SPP's illusion of world, all is up to SPP, which means judgements are made by no one else but SPP himself.
For example, SPP deems lesbianism acceptable but gayness unacceptable. So to SPP gayness is perversion but lesbianism not. There is nothing to do with others' thinkings or so called traditions.

What is SPP's bias?
SPP is not a pervert.
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Post  Posted: Oct 01, 2007 - 09:48 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

www.dictionary.com
your last post contains 4 incorrectly used words.
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Post  Posted: Oct 01, 2007 - 11:06 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Four incorrectedly used words in only a few sentences?
This is a very very big frustration to SPP for SPP has been working so hard on this language in these days but still hasn't got the essence of it.
Something is even worse: SPP can't see his mistakes.
Could CoffeeHawk_0 illuminate SPP as to what these four words are?

Maybe SPP should just give up.
SPP is just a retard. What should SPP expect from himself? Sad
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Post  Posted: Oct 01, 2007 - 11:11 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Who are you?
Who is smarter?

I don't know who you are.
I don't know who is smarter.
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The language is so awkward!
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Post  Posted: Oct 01, 2007 - 02:15 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

If you are truly serious about learning the language, why have you not taken niehao's advice and stopped referring to yourself in the 3rd person?

...or are you just here to jack us around? (look it up in synonyms.com)

When you are serious...maybe we will be also.

Until then:
I do know who is smarter. But I do not care.

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Post  Posted: Oct 01, 2007 - 04:37 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

SPP thinks platl10 can not read.
I am as serious as I can be.
I can not be more serious.

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...or are you just here to jack us around?

Of course not.
If you think the way SPP talks is a little unusual, please bear in your mind that SPP is just amusing himself and SPP is damn serious about English learning.

SPP is just wondering why he can't recieve some minor helps he desires. Sad
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Post  Posted: Oct 04, 2007 - 11:43 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

comes
books
The "s" in "comes" sounds the same to me as the "s" in "books".
IN REAL LIFE.
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expansive
expensive
These two words sound exactly the same to me.
IN REAL LIFE.

SPP is sincere.
What's wrong with SPP's ears, or cognition?
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Post  Posted: Oct 04, 2007 - 03:54 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

I plan to do the work.

The work is planed to do.
The work is planed to be done.
Which one is appropriate?
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SPP wrote:
comes -pronounced like a Z - put your teeth together and make a buzzing sound like a bug
books - pronounced like an S - like a snake or the sound air makes when it leaks from a tire

The "s" in "comes" sounds the same to me as the "s" in "books".
IN REAL LIFE.
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expansive - say the word ANT - this is the sound you want - open your mouth top to bottom (like at the doctor)
expensive - say the word TEN - this is the sound you want - open your mouth side to side (like when you smile)

These two words sound exactly the same to me.
IN REAL LIFE.

SPP is sincere.
What's wrong with SPP's ears, or cognition?


There is a good book I picked up in the Foreign Languages Bookstore on Fuzhou Lu called Pronunciation Exercises for College English Students. Get a native speaking friend to run through the different exercises with you. It's a really helpful book I am now using with most of my students.

Peace out!

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Post  Posted: Oct 04, 2007 - 09:22 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

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SPP thinks platl10 can not read.
I am as serious as I can be.
I can not be more serious.


From Niehao (Who still persists in trying to help this nitwit...Mother Theresa time!)
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A soliloquy is best made using the first person. Talking about yourself in the third person is not usually well received by your listeners (I don't know if you are being serious here or not)


If you are serious, at least try and incorporate the advice given you into your inanee ramblings.....

I will type this slowly to make it easier for you to understand....

STOP REFFERING YO YOURSELF IN THE THIRD PERSON.

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at least try and incorporate the advice given you into your inanee ramblings.....

SPP doesn't quite understand what platl10 was saying there.
What a smart ass platl10 is here, who never helped SPP and even tried to convince somebody trying to help that it is a stupid action or sin. What a winner!

For nihaoshanghai, you didn't get what I mean. I mean "s" in "comes" sounds the same as "s" in "books" to SPP even in BBC NEWS. That's what makes SPP very confused.
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For what?
What for?
Which one is appropriate?
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There is a book and a pencil on the table.
There are a book and a pencil on the table.
Which one is correct?
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It's hard for me to say that. (It is surely correct)
But

The work is very difficult to me.
The work is very difficult for me.
Which one is correct?
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Doing some exercise is good for you.
Doing some exercise is good to you.
Which one is correct?
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It's interesting to me.
It's interesting for me.
Which one is correct?
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