• @shiroininja
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    277 months ago

    I literally made money on a contract this year doing something I’d never even done. Thank you google. Love it

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      -167 months ago

      You never did it, but still made money for claiming that you had?

      • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃
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        127 months ago

        I’d : contraction I + had, past participle active. Indicative of something having been done by the subject (in first person) in the past.

        "I did something I had never done (before / in the past).

              • @[email protected]
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                27 months ago

                Looks like everyone but you understood it correctly - maybe you should brush up on your language comprehension skills?

                • @SpaceNoodle
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                  -57 months ago

                  Maybe y’all could try having a sense of humor about things.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    37 months ago

                    Wrongly calling someone out while being too fragile to accept correction isn’t a “sense of humor”.

          • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃
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            37 months ago

            Take an English class, I’m sure YouTube has a good video explaining it (basically there are different “degrees” of past tense, did / had done etc.)

            • @SpaceNoodle
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              -97 months ago

              It’s still not implicit just because you inferred it.

              • @[email protected]
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                37 months ago

                Well the word “before” doesn’t need to implicit. The “had” in I’d is more than enough past for the sentence to make sense

              • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃
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                17 months ago

                In the English language, an action I “had done” is before an action I “did.” It’s a grammatical case, not an inference.

                • @SpaceNoodle
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                  -27 months ago

                  He stated that he had not done it, not that he had not done it before.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    7 months ago

                    No native English speaker would say it like that. You’d say “doing something I never even did”.

        • @SpaceNoodle
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          -87 months ago

          If they meant it, they’d have written it.

        • @xpinchx
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          47 months ago

          I did do this for web dev for a government contract. I got brought on for mobile optimizations but ended up doing full UI/UX design and marketing copy with no experience. All through their shitty in house WYSIWYG. $60/hr for a full year lol.

      • aard
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        37 months ago

        In IT contracting (at least the fields I’m around) it’s quite common that “being able to acquire new skills quickly” is one of the skills you get paid for, and the time needed for you to do that is accounted for in the project planning.