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Hi everyone,

Who trusts signs??

Salut Gérard : c'est à peu près la meme chose pour moi. Avant les parents s'adressant à leur enfant "pourquoi n'as tu pas guéri avec les medicaments" et maintenant ils s'adressent à moi :"pourquoi ne l'avez pas guéri avec les medicaments" Bien sûr c'est une blague ! (Muriel va le traduire en GB) ;-))
Hi Gérard : It's nearly the same for me.  The parents used to say to the child "Why haven't you recovered with the médicine the doctor gave you ?"Now they speak to me " why haven't you cured him with your medicine ?" Of course, it's a joke

Hi Patrick,

Thanks for participating!

You're fortunate if it's still a joke... you may expect these words in not too distant future.

Hi everyone,

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Very good lesson!

However, I'd say this is British English (EnglishIsFun sometimes provides US English, sometimes Br English... without warning).
Americans tend to use conditional instead of simple past in the if clause: "If I would find her address...".

A few examples above are a bit strange to me:
- "we cannot say "if I were going to that concert tonight..." is simply a past continuous, it's more than, for a past continuous, it would be "If I wqas going..."
- "If I didn't have to work so much..." looks American. Brits would rather say: "If I hadn't to work so much...". Now, it's true that British English tends to shift toward Am English
- the pic above forgot the pattern If simple present, then simple present: "If chickens do have teeth, I eat my hat".

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Let's go ahead!

Hi Muriel,

I do prefer the writing on the picture I posted.

> With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future.  I live now.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Looks like Ralph doesn't want to know about the past or the future.
It's impossible, except for an Alzheimer (I write this without really knowing - just an expression)!
OK to live in the present but as for me, the past built what I am (what I know, my way to lead my life) and I cannot ignore it, the future is what I am presently building (despite my age), and I've got oodles of projects, every day, all day long.

Days ago, I referred to an American organization in which I took classes.
We often had to repeat:
"Fais l'enthousiaste, tu seras enthousiaste !"

I do agree!

So true!

NB: "eraser" is the American word for the British "rubber", but take care with the American meaning of "rubber"! lol

Yes Muriel, you are as clear as a politician! LOL