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User2010 Posted 14 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing
Help me interpret this
Tom says, "It's the style/the way you talk. We have very different styles of speaking."
Jerry says, "Well, I can't help it that I don't talk like a grandma."
Tom says, "Are you saying I talk like a grandma?"
Jerry says, "No, I'm just saying people my age talk like I do."
Here's the problem:
How can the statement, "Well, I can't help it that I don't like a grandma" actually mean "No, I'm just saying people my age talk like I do"? If you tell someone that the problem lies in the way he speaks and our very different styles of speaking, and this person says that he can't help it that he doesn't speak like a grandma, surely he means, "We have very different styles of speaking because I don't talk like a grandma", and therefore mean that you talk like a grandma, thus the difference in the styles of speaking. How can it mean otherwise? Thanks.
Jerry says, "Well, I can't help it that I don't talk like a grandma."
Tom says, "Are you saying I talk like a grandma?"
Jerry says, "No, I'm just saying people my age talk like I do."
Here's the problem:
How can the statement, "Well, I can't help it that I don't like a grandma" actually mean "No, I'm just saying people my age talk like I do"? If you tell someone that the problem lies in the way he speaks and our very different styles of speaking, and this person says that he can't help it that he doesn't speak like a grandma, surely he means, "We have very different styles of speaking because I don't talk like a grandma", and therefore mean that you talk like a grandma, thus the difference in the styles of speaking. How can it mean otherwise? Thanks.
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If you tell someone that the problem lies in the way he speaks and your very different styles of speaking, and this person says that he can't help it that he doesn't speak like a grandma, surely he means, "We have very different styles of speaking because I don't talk like a grandma", and therefore mean that you talk like a grandma- - No, it needn't mean that. Only more context would make that clear. In fact, Jerry's last line above seems to contradict your assumption: Jerry is only describing his own way of speaking.
- If you tell someone that the problem lies in the way he speaks and your very different styles of speaking, and this person says that he can't help it that he doesn't speak like a grandma, surely he means, "We have very different styles of speaking because I don't talk like a grandma", and therefore mean that you talk like a grandma- - No, it needn't mean that.
- Only more context would make that clear.
- In fact, Jerry's last line above seems to contradict your assumption: Jerry is only describing his own way of speaking.
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If you tell someone that the problem lies in the way he speaks and your very different styles of speaking, and this person says that he can't help it that he doesn't speak like a grandma, surely he means, "We have very different styles of speaking because I don't talk like a grandma", and therefore mean that you talk like a grandma-- No, it needn't mean that. Only more context would ma
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