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Hi, everybody, welcome back to Ask Alisha, the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them. Maybe... let's get to your first question this week.
大家好,欢迎回到Ask Alisha,每周的你问我答系列栏目。让我们来看看本周的第一个问题。
First question this week comes from Tamid. Hi, Tamid. Tamid says is there any difference between I asked you to call me and I told you to call me. Yes, there is a difference.
本周的第一个问题来自Tamid。嗨,Tamid。Tamid说,I asked you to call me和I told you to call me之间有什么区别吗?是的,有区别。
The difference is in the feeling. So when we ask someone to do something, it's a request. Right? The other person can say yes or no. Right?
区别在于感觉。当我们ask someone to do something时,这是一个请求。另一个人可以说是或否。
If I ask you to call me, it's a request, like will you please call me is a request. Right? The person can say "Yes, I'll call you" or "Sorry, I don't have time to call you". Right?
So when we say I asked you to call me in past tense, it sounds just like I made a request. Right?
And so maybe the other person I don't know was busy or something happened and they weren't able to do that. Let's compare this to I told you to call me.
So when we tell someone to do something, it's like a one-way kind of situation. When I tell someone to do something, it doesn't feel like a request. It feels like a demand, like this is something you must do.
So if I say I told you to call me, it might be somebody that is like above me at work or maybe it's my mother and I'm a young person, a very young person or maybe it's someone in my life that is very like strict or maybe they're kind of a controlling person.