What's the difference?

[nq:1]I cannot see you tonight because / [/nq]
I'm crushed!

Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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[nq:1]I cannot see you tonight because / [/nq]
No, no, no! It's, "I can't see you tonight because I'm washing my hair."

Dena Jo
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on 06 Nov 2003:
[nq:1]I cannot see you tonight because / [/nq]
Style. Which do you prefer? They mean the same thing. The first, however, might be used if the speaker is actually taking a bath at the moment and the listener understands that the speaker never sees anyone after taking a bath.

[nq:1]I cannot see you tonight because / [/nq]
In the UK we don't need to take baths, because we have them.

Don Aitken
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[nq:1]I cannot see you tonight because / [/nq]
The example doesn't entirely make sense, because you usually would take a bath before seeing someone, and taking a bath doesn't take all night, so it shouldn't prevent a meeting.
If you said,
I can't see you tonight because I'm doing something else. it would mean the same as
I can't see you tonight becaues I'm going to do something el

[nq:2]I cannot see you tonight because / [/nq]
[nq:1]The example doesn't entirely make sense, because you usually would take a bath before seeing someone, and taking a bath doesn't take all night, so it shouldn't prevent a meeting.[/nq]
You've never been turned down for a date, then? (Or you didn't realise you'd been turned down?)

Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30

Uzytkownik "John O'Flaherty" (Email Removed) napisal w wiadomosci
[nq:1]The example doesn't entirely make sense, because you usually would take a bath before seeing someone, and taking a bath doesn't take all night, so it shouldn't prevent a meeting.[/nq]
Agreed. This example is unfortunate, but I just wanted to know the meaning difference between the two grammatical constructions.
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[nq:2]I cannot see you tonight because / [/nq]
[nq:1]No, no, no! It's, "I can't see you tonight because I'm washing my hair."[/nq]
I remember that (and 'Friday Night is Amami Night'). How soon after the widespread availability of electric hair-dryers did that one drop out of fashion? And what's the standard brush-off now?

John 'Never heard a brush-off, don't know what they sound

[nq:2]No, no, no! It's, "I can't see you tonight because I'm washing my hair."[/nq]
[nq:1]I remember that (and 'Friday Night is Amami Night'). How soon after the widespread availability of electric hair-dryers did that one drop out of fashion? And what's the standard brush-off now?[/nq]
I'd answer that, but I have to go out and clean out the glove box of my car.
Skitt (in Hayward, Cal

[nq:2]I cannot see you tonight because / [/nq]
[nq:1]In the UK we don't need to take baths, because we have them.[/nq]
Horrid things. We have showers.

Rob Bannister
W Australian non-bather.