Timeline for "convey" vs. "say"
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| Apr 10, 2011 at 22:46 | vote | accept | language hacker | ||
| Apr 6, 2011 at 0:08 | history | edited | Jonathan Leffler | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
Note on 'say' vs 'convey' not meaning the same thing.
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| Apr 6, 2011 at 0:06 | comment | added | Jonathan Leffler | @language hacker: "but I haven't said it very well" has the wrong connotations; it implies there was a suitable (recognized) form of words, but you didn't use them and what you did say wasn't as good, somehow. Again, "I don't say it well" has the present continuous tense; "I didn't say it well" is more or less the same as "I haven't said it well". "Say" isn't quite the mot juste. | |
| Apr 5, 2011 at 23:36 | comment | added | language hacker | And "say" wouldn't work, right? | |
| Apr 5, 2011 at 23:30 | history | answered | Jonathan Leffler | CC BY-SA 2.5 |