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Reply Fri 11 Aug, 2017 12:16 am
If the following two sentences are both correct, do they mean the same thing?

1) What has X got to do with Y?

2) What does X have to do with Y?

Also, when do you use them?

Would you please give me a few examples?

Thank you
 
centrox
 
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Reply Fri 11 Aug, 2017 01:16 am
@paok1970,
Both are 'correct'. The first, using the 'has got' form, is casual and conversational:

Informal:
What has money got to do with power?
What have cows got to do with cheese?
What has the Moon got to do with June?

Formal/standard:
What has money to do with power?
What have cows to do with cheese?
What has the Moon to do with June?

The second, using 'does have', is standard and correct.




Ponderer
 
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Reply Fri 11 Aug, 2017 08:48 am
@paok1970,
1) is possibly correct, but I would say 2) is more correct.
If they are both correct, they do mean the same thing.
If X=5 and Y=10 , then X+Y=15
If. X =5 and Y=10 , then X is less than Y (X<Y) and Y is greater than X (Y>X)
That is an example of X and Y being used to represent numbers. I have never heard that question ( What does X have to do withY?) but it is quite clever.
Example: If a child does not finish his homework because he was trying to finish a video game, then the teacher might say "What does X have to do with Y?". ( X=video game Y=homework )
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Ponderer
 
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Reply Fri 11 Aug, 2017 08:52 am
@centrox,
You beat me again. I thought were waiting for me to take that one.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Fri 11 Aug, 2017 09:01 am
@Ponderer,
You've been here for all of three days, nobody is waiting for you to do a damn thing.
Ponderer
 
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Reply Fri 11 Aug, 2017 09:08 am
@izzythepush,
Glad you noticed.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Fri 11 Aug, 2017 09:13 am
@Ponderer,
Noticeable like a fly buzzing around my head.
Ponderer
 
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Reply Fri 11 Aug, 2017 09:19 am
@izzythepush,
Smile. That's a micro-drone.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Fri 11 Aug, 2017 09:44 am
@Ponderer,
A micro drone that eats dog ****.
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centrox
 
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Reply Fri 11 Aug, 2017 11:22 am
@Ponderer,
Ponderer wrote:
You beat me again. I thought were waiting for me to take that one.

Quote:
nobody is waiting for you to do a damn thing.


Ponderer
 
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Reply Fri 11 Aug, 2017 11:41 am
@centrox,
Quoting Iz doesn't impress me.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Fri 11 Aug, 2017 12:57 pm
@Ponderer,
You've only been here three days.
Ponderer
 
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Reply Sat 12 Aug, 2017 05:47 am
@izzythepush,
And already need a vacation.
centrox
 
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Reply Sat 12 Aug, 2017 06:31 am
@Ponderer,
Ponderer wrote:
And already need a vacation.

Three days here feels like six months in the real world.
Ponderer
 
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Reply Sun 13 Aug, 2017 10:55 pm
@centrox,
So it's like a gravitational space-time relativity thing? When I'm painting an hour and a half goes by ( or I go by it ) in about 20 minutes.
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