13 hours ago, bubblegum said:

I'm afraid that's not very clear to a Thai lady making fun of the English language.

That's OK. We can make lots of fun of the Thai language.

36 minutes ago, Freddy42OZ said:

 

I wouldn't want you teaching my kids.  

 

if anything like you , judgmental and short sighted biggoted like you, i prolly wouldnt want to teach them too. you put forward a flaming post based on my omitting capital letters? what a maroon

i bet you teach your kids the world is flat.

13 hours ago, bubblegum said:

I'm afraid that's not very clear to a Thai lady making fun of the English language. Lucky I'm not English because for me to its very difficult to see REAL difference.

 

dont rack yourself over it.

oh i forgot... it can also be an adverb...  __> he fell asleep

 

just tell her she can say -- he is sleeping - he is asleep.

and if she can afford to make fun of the language she is either too good for it, or very poor at it. let it be not worth it

23 hours ago, Pouatchee said:

i have been buggered by a sentence i taught to my students.

 

--> I played with my friend yesterday./Yesterday I played with my friend.

 

knowing that the passive voice cannot be construed with intransitive verbs i checked to make sure play, as in my examples, is not intransitive and as per my example it is transitive. play can be intransitive but it then does not quite mean the same thing as my sentence. 

 

 

this is the best chat gpt came up with...

 

 

the chatgpt answer seems perverted a bit

 

i would appreciate an explanation as to why my example cannot be 'passive voiced'

 

regards

This is an instance where I will rephrase, to avoid an obvious bad interpretation.

 

Yeserday, I was with my friend playing.

16 hours ago, bubblegum said:

To the asleep/sleeping answers: So when some of her friends ask me can I see your wife? What do I say (in this context)?

 

Easy.

 

Just say "she sleep."

8 minutes ago, Andre0720 said:

This is an instance where I will rephrase, to avoid an obvious bad interpretation.

 

Yeserday, I was with my friend playing.

 

thanks. then 'sleeping becomes a gerund' similar to a noun. it could be misconstrued as the friend's name being playing. the effort is noble, but the meaning gets lost. i dont think this sentence of my op can actually be turned to the passive voice and still make sense. it fits all the parameters, but then it just doesnt make sense. 

 

thanks andre720... 

On 5/9/2024 at 4:12 AM, Pouatchee said:

i have been buggered by a sentence i taught to my students.

I respectfully suggest you amend this phrase/sentence. The first verb. Look up the meaning. I'm surprised AN didn't censor it.

2 hours ago, Scott Tracy said:

I respectfully suggest you amend this phrase/sentence. The first verb. Look up the meaning. I'm surprised AN didn't censor it.

 

hey scott, in north american english it doesnt mean anything worth getting upset over. it means for us... annoyed, tired of... :

 

brit definition

adjective

VULGAR SLANG•BRITISH

1. 1.

   (of a person) extremely tired.

   "when I got there I was absolutely buggered"
    
2. seriously harmed or damaged.

   "the tumble left me with a bruised knee and a buggered arm"

 

 

-->    i did not know it meant sodomy in british slang. colloquialisms can make something banal into a totally different thing somewhere else....

 

american usage:

 

Tired, broken or ruined; “These bathers are buggered now.”

 

Bugger

(Noun/verb/adjective) A mild profanity that’s also one of the most versatile words in Australian English.
Exclamation; “Bugger! I dropped some more avo on myself.”
A term of sympathy; “Look at that poor bugger with avo all over his bathers.”
Tired, broken or ruined; “These bathers are buggered now.”
An annoying thing; “These avo-stained bathers a bit of a bugger.”
An impolite instruction; “Bugger off and change into some clean bathers.”

 

 

 

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