ext_41457 ([identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] picowrimo2019-11-01 02:17 pm

November 2019 - Day 1

Well, ladies, let's start this thing once again! Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!

May the magic be with us all!
ext_8151: (moffedille)

[identity profile] ylla.livejournal.com 2019-11-01 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
'Used to having' maybe sounds a bit better, although I didn't think 'used to have' sounded wrong.

Of course, the more you say them, the more they all sound wrong!
ext_422737: uncle hallway (Hallway)

[identity profile] elmey.livejournal.com 2019-11-01 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"used to having" is correct in this case. DO NOT ASK me to quote the pertinent rule though ;)

You should check your papers, perhaps you translated even more and forgot :) How long has it been since you started translating?
Edited 2019-11-01 19:19 (UTC)

[identity profile] rhodielady-47.livejournal.com 2019-11-02 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
The problem has to do with TENSE.
This is an action (star fleet officers are "used to having") that's always been going on and will continue to go on.

I recognized your mistake but I'm finding it very difficult to explain it to you, sorry.

[identity profile] rhodielady-47.livejournal.com 2019-11-02 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Want me to let you in on a little secret?
There are a lot of native English speakers here in America who never master all the tenses either and they get by without them--more or less.

America's schools have really gone to seed in the past quarter of a century thanks to their trying to make school easy enough that everyone can pass and get a high school diploma.
:^\