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Wanting to do something isn't the same as doing it.
by user982 6y ago
Wanting to do something isn't the same as doing it.
- mastazi 6y agoAre you saying that because the author said "I want to apologize" instead of "I apologize"? I don't remember how this phenomenon is called but basically in English and other Indo-European languages there are expressions that don't really modify the meaning of a sentence, another common example is "you know, I think I'm going to have a sandwich" vs. "I'm going to have a sandwich" - the two sentences have the same meaning, the speaker is not really asking you whether or not you know that they want a sandwich. This might be confusing at first, depending on your linguistic background.