It makes me
What is the difference in meaning between these two?
It makes me happy seeing others smile.
It makes me happy to see others smile.
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There is virtually no difference in meaning between those. I would say that the "seeing" version has a slightly more colloquial feel. Google Ngrams shows "makes me happy to see" far more common than "makes me happy seeing", to an extent that somewhat surprises me.
- There is virtually no difference in meaning between those.
- I would say that the "seeing" version has a slightly more colloquial feel.
- Google Ngrams shows "makes me happy to see" far more common than "makes me happy seeing", to an extent that somewhat surprises me.
- I suppose this may be reflective of the corpus being biased more towards formal than conversational language.
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There is virtually no difference in meaning between those. I would say that the "seeing" version has a slightly more colloquial feel. Google Ngrams shows "makes me happy to see" far more common than "makes me happy seeing", to an extent that somewhat surprises me. I suppose this may be reflective of the corpus being biased more towards formal than conversational language.
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