If you don't want the berries yes, if you do leave them
I guess I am sleepy, but... I didn´t get the meaning.
If you want the berries you should *leave* the flowers alone, isn´t so?
Mine, for instance, is blooming right now. I want the berries, so I will not cut the flowers.
Or am I wrong here?
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Not easy in a forum where most people is not native english speakers.
I teach math and related topics to mostly native speakers of English. Most of them have a lot of trouble understanding the logic of this kind of statement. Explaining it is also sort of hard, because most natural languages aren't built for logic.
A lot of things are very obvious once we know them, but not very obvious until then. A very common English phrase is, "Why didn't I think of that?"
"Why are leaves falling of my tree in October?" for example.
Sorry Ivan, I don't quite getting what you are trying to say. I was just clearing an obvious missunderstanding. Do you mean language is not to blame or something else?
I do teach logic in my native language. Not that I am very good at languages, but I don't see any limit in my language for explaining logic. In english however it is not that easy for me. I allways thought it had to do with my limited language skills, not the language itself.