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I am from Clovis, New Mexico, USA. I am pursuing my second career as a sales person for promotional products. I want to learn Czech so I can communicate with newly found relatives and conduct genealogical research. I am hoping italki will help me become fluent in Czech.
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    My understanding is that "seem" has the connotation of sense or feeling whereas "apparent" is a slightly harder realization. Seem is vague perception while apparent is slightly less vague perception. Take this sentence for example. "She left the room seemingly all right, but that apparently was not the case when she was heard sobbing outside the door." If "seemingly" and "apparently" were interchangeable, you could switch their positions in the sentence and the sentence would still have the same meaning. However, if you switch the words, the second half of the sentence makes no sense at all because there is no vague perception of what has happened. It is like the difference in water at 0 degree centigrade and 1 degree centigrade. One is frozen and the other is not quite frozen. I hope this helps.
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    October 5, 2014
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    "Gotta" is both slang and poor pronunciation. In saying, "got to" the two words are often slurred into one, hence, gotta. Having said that, the use of "got to" is incorrect. The correct way to word your question is to write, "Hi, everyone, I have a question..." The verbs "have" and "got "are often incorrectly used interchangeably. Among its many meanings and uses, "have" means to possess whereas "got" means to obtain. In this case, you clearly have a question for which you have obtained (gotten) two answers and a comment. As for answering your basic question, I agree with Kenneth's response. The author is being more creative and perhaps a bit glib and flippant in saying he's not going to go any faster.
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    October 5, 2014
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    You can say "he is working yet" but that sentence, as Su.KI writes, is probably in response to a question such as, "Is he working?" or "Has he lost his job?" The respective answers being, "Yes, he is working" or "No, he is working yet." For the sake of clarity, I would use the word still in both sentences rather than yet unless I want to suggest his status is about to change. If his status is about to change, I would use the word yet. For example, "He is working, yet he may be laid off at the end of the month." In this sense, yet carries the connotation of the word but. I hope this helps.
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    October 5, 2014
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    Good people are those you know you can trust. Good people will help you and are honest. Bad people are ones you know will cheat you, steal from you and be untruthful. To know good from bad is to be able to see the difference between the two.
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    October 5, 2014
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