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Khoff Posted 14 years ago
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Want me to respond to your question?

Don't use "wanna" or "u" in your post! They are driving me crazy, and I'm going to try very hard to ignore any posts that contain these non-words. Emotion: headbang
  

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Why did you use 'They are driving me crazy'? Could you have said 'They drive me crazy? And what's the difference?

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Why did you use 'They are driving me crazy'? Could you have said 'They drive me crazy? And what's the difference? Thanks.
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Yes, I could have said "They drive me crazy." I guess the difference is that "they drive me crazy" is a general statement, and "they are driving me crazy" tells more specifically how I was feeling at the moment when I wrote the post.

And thank you for using real words, capitalization, and punctuation in your post, as well as saying 'Thanks"!
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One more question. Why did you use 'want me'? Isn't that informal? Thanks.
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Yes, it's informal, but it's very common -- and, unlike "wanna," I consider it an acceptable ellipsis ("Do you" is "understood" but not stated). I suppose, to be perfectly correct, I should have written "Do you want me to respond to your question?" (or "Would you like me to respond to your question?") but I was aiming for a conversational tone. (I was looking for a tone that said "even though
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