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> I proceeded to do the work. > I did the work. > I worked.
by valbaca 9mo ago
> I proceeded to do the work.
> I did the work.
> I worked.
- xboxnolifes 9mo agoEach one of these has slightly different readings in my eyes.
- unsupp0rted 9mo agoNot different enough to make it worth using anything but the simplest one.
- monster_truck 9mo agoI'm of the notion that my certainty is not sufficiently concrete to discover myself in the realm of agreement
- overfeed 9mo agoPerhaps yet another American cultural artifact. One that - if I were to guess - originated from the Calvinist disdain for ostentiousness.
- unsupp0rted 9mo agoYes yes, anybody who prefers plain, easily parsed wording is American. Wording? Don't you mean diction?
- overfeed 9mo agoA -> B =/= B -> A. I didn't claim that this was exclusively American. Though I'd have to admit that one doesn't have to be American to adopt Ameracanisms: rhotic Rs, Netflix color-grading, and copy-cat political movements are other American cultural artifacts showing up across the world due to America's dominance of the zeitgeist. Rap verses in pop songs wasn't a spontaneously phenomenon across the globe, the origins are tracably American - but that doesn't make all rappers American.
- hyghjiyhu 9mo agoUnlike the last variant, the first two imply there was some quantity of work and it was all completed. I don't really see the difference between the two though.
- thaumasiotes 9mo agoWell, option 1 implies that there was something else going on before the event described in the sentence. Option 2 is neutral about that. Compare: 1. I did the work for that last week. 2. I proceeded to do the work for that last week. Sentence 2 strikes me as questionably grammatical. It needs to be proceeding from something in the context.