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@JasperLoy and occasionally have information problems

Nah, Hellion is wrong. But not wrong enough to get one's knickers in a twist about it.

oh
*untwists knickers*

Q: How to wish someone for the upcoming weekend

9:28 PM

Oh, FFS ...

Is it correct to say "Wish you a happy weekend" or should I say "Wishing you a happy weekend"?

Is this really worthy of an answer? Are people just that bored?

Q: Is it correct to use Past in place of Past Participle?

And now this:

On a movie this boy sees his father with a bruise on his face and asks him: What happened to you? How is this correct? Why didn't he ask his father using past participle form of happen? Like: What's happened to you? The latter seems more correct because we are still seeing the bruise ...

grammar past-participle

This is probably more popular than the a vs an question.

See, this is why I so seldom get involved with ELU. It continually disappoints me. <big sigh>

Well you've been rather active as of late.

Sorry, you were active as of late.

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Wut? @Rob wuz been active?

@RegDwightѬſ道 — You call that active? Do you even remember what me being active looked like?

9:40 PM

Seven. It looked like seven. Or eight, I forget.

@Robusto yes I am

@RegDwightѬſ道 — Eight? Maybe if you pushed that number over on its side.

it broke apart in the fall

∞

Q: When Will "Present Perfect vs Past Tense" Cases Be Affected By Culture?

Regarding actions taken in the past, besides the differences those two tenses have semantically, my teacher shared that it could be a British vs American English case. When talking about past action, British prefers present perfect because they take into account that the effect from their past ...

american-english british-english past-tense contractions present-perfect-tense

That one even has an answer by Kosmo.

9:42 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 — Who is also in the past tense. Perfectly so.

Yeah.

I see a lot of questions lately that get answers (and are not closed) but are dupes.

I rely on the paid staff to do their jobs and close those. :P

Q: Difference between "validation" and "verification"

What is the difference between validation and verification? When looking them up on Wiktionary they seem to mean mostly the same thing, but is there a difference? For example, would I be correct in saying that Checking that the format of an email address is valid, would be validation? The proc...

differences

dupe?

Q: Verification and Validation difference

I will create a software validation document. As you know there are some documents about to create and accept software. My question is, what is the difference between verification & validation?

Well obviously.

good good

9:51 PM

It has the exact same question, word for word, except that the last and the third to last word are swapped.

I just need to check that I'm not going mad

or at least other people have similar psychological states

@Robusto Seriously, I'm kind of growing tired of questions that boil down to, well, "I have this grammar book for non-native learners of the language and it says X, but this native speaker right here says Y. Why hasn't he read that book and learned the language from his mother instead?"

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@MattЭллен I can be pretty sure you're not not not going mad

@MattЭллен Wait, what other people?

@aediaλ here? are there people here?

@MattЭллен Haha wait, the original got closed as gen-ref, and the dupe is at +9 already?

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9:54 PM

I don't see any people

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