the burning questions
so. flist. i love english. i need to know what you think.
writing/english question: present perfect versus simple past?
(example: "what's happened" v "what happened")
questions to facilitate discussion:
1) general opinions?
2) relative merits?
3) preferences?
4) differences in appropriateness of usage?
5) differences in nuance in meaning?
6) cross-linguistic examples/differences/similarities?
7) some other thing you absolutely need to tell me/us about this? (anything
you think about this topic goes into the category of THINGS YOU ABSOLUTELY
NEED TO TELL ME about this, for the record).
Discuss in comments! (and feel free to discuss with each other as well as
with me) I will love you forever for answering this!
writing/english question: present perfect versus simple past?
(example: "what's happened" v "what happened")
questions to facilitate discussion:
1) general opinions?
2) relative merits?
3) preferences?
4) differences in appropriateness of usage?
5) differences in nuance in meaning?
6) cross-linguistic examples/differences/similarities?
7) some other thing you absolutely need to tell me/us about this? (anything
you think about this topic goes into the category of THINGS YOU ABSOLUTELY
NEED TO TELL ME about this, for the record).
Discuss in comments! (and feel free to discuss with each other as well as
with me) I will love you forever for answering this!