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PreciousJones Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Cold

I have a cold and my friend tells me:

You should get some warm clothes on! And it doesn't help how the climate's slowly changing.

Can this be said?

Thanks!
  

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PreciousJones I have a cold and my friend tells me:You should get some warm clothes on! This can be said. ) PreciousJones And it doesn't help how the climate's slowly changing.

— Avangi

  • PreciousJones I have a cold and my friend tells me:You should get some warm clothes on!
  • This can be said.
  • ) PreciousJones And it doesn't help how the climate's slowly changing.
  • This is grammatical, but it's not logical.
  • I don't believe it's what you really mean, or intend to say.
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PreciousJonesI have a cold and my friend tells me:You should get some warm clothes on!
This can be said. (It should be punctuated as direct speech, in my opinion.)
PreciousJonesAnd it doesn't help how the climate's slowly changing.
This is grammatical, but it's not logical. I don't believe it's what you really mean, or int
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Avangi PreciousJonesI have a cold and my friend tells me:You should get some warm clothes on!This can be said. (It should be punctuated as direct speech, in my opinion.)PreciousJonesAnd it doesn't help how the climate's slowly changing.This is grammatical, but it's not logical. I don't believe it's what you really mean, or intend to say.I think it means something like,"If
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PreciousJonesAnd it doesn't help when the climate is slowly changing.
If a native speaker said this to me, I'd take it as compounding the original situation.
And another thing! When the climate is slowly changing, you're going to catch a cold no matter what you do!

"It doesn't help when" is sort of an idiom.
Dang! I f
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