Originally Posted by TallyHo77:
“It didn't. Both verbs were used.
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I tried to be as precise as I could in my recollection (Breakfast isn't on iPlayer). I'm not sure forensic linguistic analysis is really called for though? It was just an interesting snippet from the media coverage, that's all.”
There is a very big difference between "would have" and "should have" in this case, and I think we need a clip so we can hear for ourselves what Karen said, how she said it, and the context.
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“Indeed. It can though, of course, as I said.”
No, if someone can do splits as an adult it is not because of ballet training as a child. Ballet class as a child does not mean you can do splits as an adult; it doesn't sometimes mean it and sometimes not.
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“I don't think it's very interesting myself, but then again I don't think your description of my post is accurate, so there you go.”
Over half of the post was about Ali and Brian's dances, and the comments about them were negative.
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“ They showed clips of two Charlestons and there was a clear difference in the synchronisation and coordination with the music. You can argue about what scores should have been, but it's probably not worth getting too worked up about. Meanwhile, Laila and Anton were not mentioned at all, which was a bit of a shame in my view, as I thought they were rather good on Saturday.”
Before, "it seemed to me that Ali and Brian's one was somewhat lacking in rhythm"; now it's "a clear difference". So again, I think we need to see a clip of the Breakfast segment so we can judge for ourselves. Different people see such things differently, just as they do when watching SCD.