...you never stopped to speak to anybody any more

[Ms. Worth]

Imnediately below the box containing the ID of the person posting is a line giving the date and time of the post. The sequence number of the post is at the right hand end of that line.

Not to flaunt my computer illiteracy, but I can't find a box with the ID of the person posting something.
I can find a box to the immediate left of the answer field with an avatar of the posting person and some biogeographical details, but no time and date mark and no sequence number.

Sorry to be so stupid.
May you please add details of the sort that you never thought you'd have to post for anyone over the age of seven?

 

[probus]

Speaking of computer illiteracy, I can't figure out how to take a screenshot right now, which would surely be the best way.

But anyway, right below the thread title is a box with your username, your user type (Teacher - Other in your case) and so on.
And right below that box is the line which ends wirh the post number.

 

[Ms. Worth]

Here's a paste of every single thing in that box:

Ms. Worth​

Junior Member​

Joined Sep 20, 2022
Location Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Member Type Teacher (Other)
Native Language English
Home Country United States
Current Location United States

There is not one word more.
Nobody else has anything more either.

 

[probus]

It's the line immediately below that box. Do you see it now?

 

[Ms. Worth]

It's the line immediately below that box. Do you see it now?

There is no line of writing below that box.
It's just a featureless gray field all the way down to the top of your box, which also does not show the information you described.
Underneath your grey field is a string of three check boxes to click:
< Prev 1 2
The box with 2 written in it is pink and the other two are gray.

(sulking) I knew I wasn't going to be good at this.

EDIT:
Hey! The pink and gray boxes jumped to my image!

 

[Glizdka]

It's here. Your previous post was #25.

 

[Glizdka]

Did you see post 11 @Glizdka?

I shared your opinion and in regard to AmE still do. But evidently BrE is different when it comes to anymore.

Oh, I wasn't actually expressing my disappointment with Longman. I just wanted to provide an example and thought it would fit after I saw Ms. Worth's argument in post #14. You see, I've used anymore and any more in my post deliberately.

 

[Ms. Worth]

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It's here. Your previous post was #25.

Thanks!
I see it now.
(swaggering with foolish pride) #25, is it?
I reckon that's a pretty good number now, right?
But there's no need for you all to be jealous.
I'm sure you'll get a fine number yourselves one of these days.
Maybe not "twenty-five" -- that's expecting a little too much -- but maybe you could get a nice 15 or even a 20 with good luck and strong character.

Best wishes to all you non-twenty-fivers.
~ Ann (25) Worth

 

[5jj]

Maybe we've stumbled across another AmE vs BrE difference. In BrE, there's nothing wrong with "... didn't love me anymore". The only thing wrong with "... didn't love me any more" is the use of two separate words at the end.

This may be a generation thing, too.

For me, In UK English, anymore (one word) is typically considered incorrect, and any more (two words) is used as both an adverb and a determiner. Link.

The Cambridge Dictionary makes the point: Especially in American English, any more, as an adverb, can be written as one word, anymore:

 

[Barque]

I reckon that's a pretty good number now, right?
But there's no need for you all to be jealous.
I'm sure you'll get a fine number yourselves one of these days.

I'm not sure if you were joking or if you haven't followed. That reference to post #11 which started this discussion off was a reference to the serial number of that post in this thread (the 11th post in this thread). The opening post by shootingstar was #1 and this one from me is #30. On a computer screen, the number can be seen at the top right-hand corner of each post.

What do you take you never stopped to speak to anybody any more to mean in this context?

To put it another way, it means "You never made the time to speak to people anymore. (You were only interested in what you wanted to do.)".

Or: You never stopped [your activities] to speak to anybody.

This is different from "You never stopped speaking to anybody", which means the opposite.

 

[shootingstar]

But to contradict myself, I would say:
> You didn't love me anymore after that (my misdeed.)
> Once I told you what I had done, you didn't love me anymore.
> After they hired a rock band to play during dinner service, I didn't go there anymore.

And throwing the idea into the future:
> If you do that, I won't love you anymore.
> If they start noisy entertainment, I won't eat there anymore.

In other words: it depends on context.

 

[Barque]

Then, someone stopped to speak to someone means someone makes a stop at my side/me and speaks to me, right? And that's is meant here?

It has a slightly different meaning here (in the passage you quoted). Emily isn't referring to George actually stopping by a specific person's side. She's speaking more in general. She's saying "You don't make time to speak to people (the way you used to) anymore".

Note that you need "And that is meant here?" (which is a little informal) or, more correctly, "And is that what's meant here?"

 

[shootingstar]

It has a slightly different meaning here (in the passage you quoted). Emily isn't referring to George actually stopping by a specific person's side. She's speaking more in general. She's saying "You don't make time to speak to people (the way you used to) anymore".

Great reply. I've suspected this meaning.

 

[Ms. Worth]

In other words: it depends on context.

Well, it depends on something in the past happening to reverse the love.
> After X happened, I no longer persisted in loving you.,

That's not the same as
> I didn't love you back in those days.

 

[Barque]

I haven't understood. What are you referring to?

 

[emsr2d2]

I haven't understood don't understand. What are you referring to?

Which post does that refer to? You haven't quoted a response.

 

[Barque]

I thought it'd be understood that it meant the post immediately above. Anyway, to clarify, I meant Ms. Worth's post #34, immediately before mine.

 

[Ms. Worth]

I thought it'd be understood that it meant the post immediately above. Anyway, to clarify, I meant Ms. Worth's post #34, immediately before mine.

I am trying to respond to the use of "any more" to refer to an action (in the past) that did not happen then.

I say that the saying "I didn't love you any more" is incorrect as a statement that I did not love you then in the past at that time.
(From a woman in her 20s who loves you for the first time now:
> I didn't love you any more when we were in high school together.
I say that this sentence makes no sense because of the incorrect use of "any more" to mean "then," or "at that time."
"Any MORE" automatically implies "after a previous time when there was SOME."

At the tea party, the Mad Hatter invited Alice to have some more tea.
She replied that she could hardly have MORE when she hadn't had ANY yet..
The Mad Hatter pointed out that it is easy to have more than NOTHING.