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Yoplain

#267431 Fri, 15 Sep 06 01:50 PM

Here is a sentence I've found:

'I would never talk crap about my own kind doesn't matter how bad they are.'

I don't know whether the one who said this is a native speaker or not. But assuming that this sentence is correct, am I understanding it correctly as follows?

No matter how bad they are, { I would never talk crap about ['my own kind doesn't matter'] }

What I don't understand is : is it possible to put another sentence after 'about'?

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Marius Hancu

#267440 Fri, 15 Sep 06 02:15 PM

No, that is a bad re-arrangement.

The correct translation is:
No matter how bad my relatives (i.e. my own kind) are, I will not speak badly about them.

my own kind could also mean my friends, my group, my fellows, those associated with me.

Marius Hancu

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Translation

Yoplain

#267556 Fri, 15 Sep 06 05:19 PM

Oops, thank you for correcting it.

Then doesn't matter how bad they are. = no matter how bad they are?

And

Doesn't matter how bad my relatives (i.e. my own kind) are, I will not speak badly about them.

No matter how bad my relatives (i.e. my own kind) are, I will not speak badly about them.

Are these two sentences exactly the same?

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Inchoateknowledge

#267569 Fri, 15 Sep 06 05:55 PM

Doesn't matter how bad my relatives (i.e. my own kind) are, I will not speak badly about them.

Doesn't hinges on which subject -- 'it'?
this sentence is false -- you can not ellipt the subject in indicative mood.

"No matter how bad my relatives are, I will not speak badly about them." correct

"(It is) (n)o matter how bad my relatives (i.e. my own kind) are, I will not speak badly about them."

Inchoateknowledge

Joined on Wed, May 3 2006

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Beep! Beep! :)

Yoplain

#267678 Fri, 15 Sep 06 11:13 PM

Okay, thanks for correcting me again.

But I'm a bit confused here. I think I missed something important.

'I would never talk crap about my own kind doesn't matter how bad they are.'

Is this senence right or wrong in the 1st place?

If this one is wrong, I have no problem understanding your answers, but if it is right, what makes it different from my wrong sentence Inchoateknowledge pointed?

Yoplain

Goodman

#267689 Fri, 15 Sep 06 11:31 PM

Yoplain wrote:

Here is a sentence I've found:

I don't know whether the one who said this is a native speaker or not. But assuming that this sentence is correct, am I understanding it correctly as follows?

No matter how bad they are, { I would never talk crap about ['my own kind doesn't matter'] }

What I don't understand is : is it possible to put another sentence after 'about'?