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I'll play. In fact I already joined the game you've made.


Side question to the native speakers - which one's correct:
"In fact I already joined the game you've made."
or
"In fact I've already joined the game you made."
or
what? :D

Ive played with gnuff twice in the last year, thats not again and again. I havent heard gnuffs assesment of players but i would like to. Getting a sense of who is good and who is pro before all the bridges get burned is pretty much what i was doing before you started interfering. It would be for the best if you stopped now i think.

Side question to the native speakers - which one's correct:
"In fact I already joined the game you've made."
or
"In fact I've already joined the game you made."

Grammar Nazi Lolowut here:

Neither of those sentences are correct. You require a comma after "In fact."

The variation of where you put 'have' does not matter though.

In fact, I have already joined the game you made.

In fact, I already joined the game you have made.

So long as you use have at least once the sentence is correct. You can even use have twice if you so choose.

Grammar Nazi Correction Nazi Namib here:

Neither of those sentences are correct.

incorrect

It should be : "Neither of those sentences IS correct."

Haha, Busted! :D namib - lolwhat 1:0

I don't quite get how the placement of "have" can make no difference to whether the sentence is correct or not, but thanks for the answer, mate ;)


is it the emphasis on which part of the sentence is more important?
or the slight differences in the meaning as in:

"In fact I already joined the game you've made." means I joined the game which has been made, and the game is still there, with a slight tone suggesting it's not necessarily true I am still joined.. maybe i left the game?

while
"In fact I've already joined the game you made." would be somewhat like I have joined the game, and did not leave but i have no idea if the game is still open, or maybe it has alrady started or is still waiting for others to join?

do i get it right?

edit: sorry for hijacking the thread guys but i would really want to know :P

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I have already joined the game you have made.

Present perfect is used for an past action that is important in the present.

Using already in this sentence could stress different things, depending on the context.

For instance you want to give an information that the one you are speaking to does not need to ask you again to join. You want to answer him before he even asks.

Another possibility is the response to someone who asks you to join. You already did what he asks of you.

But it could also stress the fact that you already joined, while others didnt.



I already joined the game you made.

Past tense is used for an action that was finished in the past.

Using already in this context is not possible, but i could be wrong.

You could say I had already joined the game you made. Meaning you had joined before the game that was made ended.

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I want to play games with good players too, we all do. Given that we all want the same thing, getting it is remarkably difficult. 20A, the ladders and HHH invitationals consistently did not attract all the good players and do not produce a satisfying number of high level games. Already Ive dealt with disagreements and we had to delete and vote on many more games, and we only have 1 good game to show for it. Thats with just 4 people involved. Its not going to get smoother as it scales up unless I iron out the kinks and it grows organically.

I do want to organise everything and I would like you to stop stepping on my toes. Your interference is a problem because good players get burned out on a template or idea quickly and once theyre out then it takes a lot to draw them back in.

My good friend Sherlock Holmes was looking at this thread just today. After hours and hours of detailed study, he observed, much to my astonishment, that with the exception of one player, ALL the people in the A League list were from the [20] clan! The second observation he made astonished me even further, coincidentally (or not), [20] happened to be the clan the league organizer, Qi aka Voodop, founded! :O

Could this be a coincidence? I better ring up Sherlock Holmes and ask him to investigate further.

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Haha it confuses me too always that some guys changed their profile picture voodoo ;)

No, long term what youre doing will not work as well as i want it to.

no community project on WL lasts long term, people eventually stop caring. The only exception I can think of is the clan league, but then again, WL players have always had some insane addiction to clan politics.

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i hear long term milky way and andromeda galaxy will collide, all life on earth will perish, and then boom a supernova explode and big big black hole happen and suck all the universe, and no more universe then black hole avada kedavra! no more black hole everything over. And then God say let there be light again and then we reincarnate and everything happen again and wl will eventually start again but maybe not same people because mayvbe reincarnate when we will have different likes and hobbies who know, so different events so long term no wl community project will last.

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