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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 7617803" data-attributes="member: 5142"><p>This is hardly a gotcha moment you imagine. And I apologize now that someone had to explain to you how the conjunction "but" can work in your own native language at this late of a stage in your life. Grammar is boring, <strong><em>but</em></strong> it's necessary. </p><p></p><p>The conjunction "but" does not "[invalidate] what came before by carving out an exception to explain why what came before is wrong." Here's one example. In the statement, "He drinks, but he doesn't smoke," the fact that he drinks is not invalidated by the fact that he doesn't smoke. Or another example, "Jessie loved math, but Candice hated the subject" we may be at a loss to explain how Candice hating math invalidates or makes an exception out of Jessie's love of the subject. Probably another common example would be something along the lines of "You can go, but be careful." You are not creating an exception or invalidating the first independent clause. The speaker is qualifying the condition of the permission for the recipient(s), essentially a caveat. </p><p></p><p>The inclusion of "but...also..." in my statement is a caveat rather than an invalidation of the precedent. It's an awareness that although we will engage in conversations as part of our daily life, we will also shift our discourse based upon who we are speaking to or our audience (i.e., the aforementioned interlocutors). Our conversational patterns are typically thus contextualized based upon the interlocutor. </p><p></p><p>If I was talking about my research, I will likely explain what I do differently if the person was within my field or outside of my field because this latter person may not have a presumed shared knowledge-base (e.g., terms, methods, assumptions, knowledge, etc.) as the former would have. But if I was speaking with the former, it doesn't stop being a conversational style just because I am speaking to someone within my field either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 7617803, member: 5142"] This is hardly a gotcha moment you imagine. And I apologize now that someone had to explain to you how the conjunction "but" can work in your own native language at this late of a stage in your life. Grammar is boring, [B][I]but[/I][/B] it's necessary. The conjunction "but" does not "[invalidate] what came before by carving out an exception to explain why what came before is wrong." Here's one example. In the statement, "He drinks, but he doesn't smoke," the fact that he drinks is not invalidated by the fact that he doesn't smoke. Or another example, "Jessie loved math, but Candice hated the subject" we may be at a loss to explain how Candice hating math invalidates or makes an exception out of Jessie's love of the subject. Probably another common example would be something along the lines of "You can go, but be careful." You are not creating an exception or invalidating the first independent clause. The speaker is qualifying the condition of the permission for the recipient(s), essentially a caveat. The inclusion of "but...also..." in my statement is a caveat rather than an invalidation of the precedent. It's an awareness that although we will engage in conversations as part of our daily life, we will also shift our discourse based upon who we are speaking to or our audience (i.e., the aforementioned interlocutors). Our conversational patterns are typically thus contextualized based upon the interlocutor. If I was talking about my research, I will likely explain what I do differently if the person was within my field or outside of my field because this latter person may not have a presumed shared knowledge-base (e.g., terms, methods, assumptions, knowledge, etc.) as the former would have. But if I was speaking with the former, it doesn't stop being a conversational style just because I am speaking to someone within my field either. [/QUOTE]
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