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• #602
He describes Trump’s recent physical exam as “show[ing] only positive results.”
AIDS, cancer, whooping cough, scarlet fever, pregnancy, and mange.
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• #603
Dementia. You forgot dementia.
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• #604
It's "done showed." Everyone knows that.
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• #605
"mainly for exemptions to use a substance to treat Rheumatoid Arthritis in his hands and wrists, a condition he has stated he suffers with publicly."
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• #606
I keep hearing heighth and it is making me ill. Length, breadth, width I have no problem with but heighth has never been a word, for fuck's sake.
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• #607
i do like the word 'longth'.
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• #608
Who wouldn't?
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• #609
wouldn'th
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• #610
“It’s plain that she recognises what a disaster it would be for Britain to lose access to the single market, so why doesn’t she be honest with the British people and say how she plans to retain it?”
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• #611
I'm not seeing it. Is it "why doesn’t she be"?
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• #612
Yes.
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• #613
I think there's some kind of drift going on there with "be honest", where "to be" loses some of its stative quality.
Why don't you be honest and admit you were wrong?
Why doesn't he just be quiet when I tell him to?
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• #614
Yes, in the question asked in the second person, the 'why don't you be' construction implies an imperative, which doesn't work in the other persons.
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• #615
The implied imperative remains with the second example, though.
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• #616
No, because that's in the third person. The imperative needs to address the person being spoken to.
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• #617
Am I alone in not caring about this one?
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• #618
Neither is a true imperative, though, but I don't think that's the issue at hand, here.
Looking at the very limited data above, it's to do with how dynamic the action of "to be" is.
A lot of native English speakers would have no problem with "why doesn’t she be honest with the British people..." It didn't raise any problems with me on first reading.
"Why isn't she honest with the British people..." has a subtly different meaning here.
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• #619
Nope. It won't register as wrong for lots of native speakers.
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• #620
"why doesn’t she be"?
"Why don't she be".
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• #621
"Why don't she be".
"Why she be dishonest?"
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• #623
"Why she be dishonest?"
Y she lye?
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• #624
U fukin wot m8?
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• #625
You missed the 'doe'.
Y she lye doe!?
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