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0:11Welcome back to Ask Alisha, the weekly series
where you ask me questions and I answer them,
0:17First question this week comes from Dave.
0:21“Some people use ‘lol’ on the internet.
0:24Yeah, ‘lol’ can mean laugh out loud or
lots of laughs.
0:29But, either way, we use this expression to
quickly explain we thought something was funny,
0:36Next question comes from Havel.
0:39Havel says, “Hey, Alisha.
0:41Please tell us about the difference between
‘to not’ and ‘not to’ As in, ‘I
0:45want to not’ and ‘I want not,’ for example.”
0:50So, with these, there's not really a difference
between these.
0:54Like, “I want not to” and “I want to
not do something.”
0:57Both of these are casual ways of explaining
a negative in speech.
1:03The correct sentence would be, “I don't
want to do something,” but native speakers
1:09sometimes like to kind of play with grammar
a little bit, that's one reason they might
1:13use this pattern, either of these patterns
really.
1:17Also, sometimes we start a sentence and we
make it positive like, “I want to…”
1:22and then, we realize part of the way into
the sentence, “Oh, wait.
1:26I want to express something negative.”
1:28So, we change it to “to not” or “not
to” So, “I want not to blah, blah, blah,”
1:33or “I want to not blah, blah, blah.”
1:35Both are okay but just keep in mind that we
use that “I want not to” or “I want
1:41to not blah, blah, blah,” in casual situations.
1:44We don't generally use these in formal situations.
1:47Instead, we use, “I don't want to blah,
blah, blah.”
1:51“I want to not get in trouble,” “I want
not to get in trouble.”
1:56The correct sentence here would be “I don't
want to get in trouble.”
1:59But, you'll hear native speakers do this for
a number of reasons so there's not really
2:03a difference between these two.
2:05But, you will hear both of those used by native
speakers.
2:09Thanks for the question.
2:10Next question comes from Sagrid Karakilar.
2:18Can I use ‘though’ instead of ‘nevertheless?’
2:21It looks as if their meanings are the same.”
2:25This is a great question.
2:27“Though” and “nevertheless,” yes,
while they do have similar meanings sometimes,
2:32they have different grammatical functions.
2:35So, “nevertheless” means in spite of the
thing that was said before or despite the
2:43“Nevertheless” is used only as an adverb.
2:46“Though,” however, can be used as an adverb,
yes, but it can also be used as a conjunction.
2:53“Though” can also mean “nevertheless”
or “in spite of,” however, it also sometimes
2:58just has the meaning of “but.”
3:00“Though I almost ran out of time, I finished
the test with a perfect score.”
3:05“He told me he would call at 8:00.
3:07Though, it's 8:15 and I haven't heard from
him.”
3:10“I almost ran out of time.
3:12Nevertheless, I finished the test with a perfect
score.”
3:14“Her proposal was rejected.
3:17Nevertheless, she continued with her research.”
3:19Hope that that helps answer your question,
though.
3:21Thanks for the question.
3:23Next question comes from Marcus Cordia.
3:27Marcos says, “Alisha, help!”
3:30“Do the words ‘weather’ and ‘whether’
have the same pronunciation?
3:33And, does ‘whether’ have the same sense
of ‘if?’
3:36Could you use it in some examples?
3:41“Weather,” as in like clouds, sunlight,
rain, snow, wind.
3:44“Weather” and “whether,” W-H-E-T-H-E-R,
they have the same pronunciation, yes.
3:50And the W-H form does contain the meaning
of “if,” as in, “whether or not something.”
3:56So, native speakers will often say, “Whether
or not” but we can reduce this to “if.”
4:02Some examples, “He hasn't decided whether
or not he's coming to dinner.”
4:06“I don't know whether or not I'm going to
travel this summer.”
4:09“Do you know whether or not your parents
are at home?”
4:11In each of these sentences, we could change
“whether or not” to “if.”
4:16I hope that that answers your question, Marcos.
4:20Next question comes from Kisavah.
4:22Kisavah says, “What's the difference between
‘bored with’ and ‘bored by?’”
4:29There's no difference, actually.
4:30“Bored with” and “bored by,” also,
we use “bored of.”
4:36These are all used in the same way to explain
something that causes us to feel bored.
4:41“I'm so bored by this lesson.”
4:43“I'm so bored with this textbook.”
4:45“I'm so bored of you.”
4:46So, we can use all of these in the same way.
4:49You might find that some people have personal
preferences for which one they choose to use,
4:54but we use them all in the same way.
4:56Nice question though.
4:58Next question comes from Paul.
5:01“’Let me ask a question’ or ‘Lemme
ask a question,’ which is the correct sentence?”
5:07Both of these are actually correct.
5:08“Lemme” is the reduced form of “let
me.”
5:12We use this in more casual situations.
5:14“Let me ask a question,” is fine too.
5:17It just sounds more formal.
5:18And, when we reduce the sounds, actually,
it sounds a little more natural.
5:22So, “Let me ask you a question,” “Lemme
ask you a question,” that's fine to use
5:28In writing, however, L-E-M-M-E looks very
casual so we typically don't use that in formal
5:36But, both of them are actually correct.
5:38Okay, so, those are all the questions that
I want to answer for this week.
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