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Forum_mail  #364488  Sun, 13 May 07 11:37 PM
What does this sentence (taken from 'Lost') mean?

'all the best cowboys have daddy issues...'

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Feebs11  #364491  Mon, 14 May 07 12:01 AM
Context????
  
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Francesca  #364496  Mon, 14 May 07 12:18 AM
See if it can help you: Lost_11th episode
I've actually read the plot but I didn't get what the title has go to do with it Indifferent [:|]
  
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MrPedantic  #364500  Mon, 14 May 07 12:21 AM

I would take "daddy issues" as "problematic relationships with their fathers".

(There may be a Presidential reference here.)

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Forum_mail  #364609  Mon, 14 May 07 09:37 AM
 Francesca wrote:
See if it can help you: Lost_11th episode
I've actually read the plot but I didn't get what the title has go to do with it Indifferent [:|]


why did you use present perfect in the first part of your sentence and past simple in the second ;> ? I'm just curious, cause I tend to have problems when these two tenses are being mixed (or simply 'mixed' ?)

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ps. thanks for the link; I'm going to read it
  
Francesca  #364685  Mon, 14 May 07 02:28 PM

you're welcome Smile [:)]

Ahem, I'm not sure that I chose the right tenses Embarrassed [:$] I just hope that MrP will read this and can explain what you're asking and correct what I wrote wrong !

  
Sesquipedalian  #364702  Mon, 14 May 07 02:46 PM
It means either they have problems with their fathers or they refer to their fathers as DADDY, like ma daddy this ma daddy that, and some people find it funny. It usually happenes in the south.
  
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Forum_mail  #364767  Mon, 14 May 07 05:34 PM
 Francesca wrote:

you're welcome Smile [:)]

Ahem, I'm not sure that I chose the right tenses Embarrassed [:$] I just hope that MrP will read this and can explain what you're asking and correct what I wrote wrong !



oh Smile [:)] OK :- )

by the way... 'Francesca' ... what a great name!
  
MrPedantic  #364934  Mon, 14 May 07 10:38 PM

It sounds fine to me!


I've actually read the plot but I didn't get what the title has go to do with it

"I've actually read the plot" = present perfect, because it reports the present state of "having read the plot". The p.p. here also focuses on the presence of the plot in the speaker's mind.

"I didn't get what the title has got to do with it" = simple past because it reports a particular event: "not understanding the significance of the title at the time of reading".

Of course, there are other possible permutations, e.g.

"I read the plot, but I didn't..."

"I've read the plot, but I don't..."

— with their slightly different focuses.

MrP

  
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