GIVE ANSWERS - English

Warning: Even I am confused by this comment because of unnecessary complexity, so feel free to ignor it.


>>It depends on the context which one to use.

I thought that my question was clear. That I am talking about context of my first comment. ^_^
Not sure if I understood it right. From your answer I understand that my thought - I did not think of ”shady” in the past - and that - now I know that it is better to use it instead of ”mean” - means that I should have been using ”I have not thought that...”. Is it right? Only thing that makes ”I have not thought that...” incorrect is your ”...topic the speaker hopes to talk about...”.
Short version - In my first comment I was saying about past thought, but trying to put an accent to ”it is important for me that I found ’shady’ as a better option now”. I was trying to get simple answer to ”Which one natives would use in this case?”

Your explanations are good, even if it is hard for me to understand all of them, and I appresiate it. Nevertheless, I will still be gratefull for a simple answer to ”How you/natives would say what I was trying to say in my first comment”/”In what words you/native can wrap my thoughts from a first comment”. Well, maybe not a simple because of ”...topic the speaker hopes to talk about...”.

PS: Now I understand how hard could be for people to understand mine walls of text when I am trying to correct their texts or answer to their questions in a complex way ^_^

About Gemini. Looks like I misslead you here. I put Gemini’s words as I understood them, and to clarify my thought to you. Gemini gave me several options to correct mine ”I did not thought than”. It(Gemini) describes all options with alot of words and said that I need to choose a correct one for my context. So I asked you ”what would you choose?” and gave you an option chosen by me to clarify ”Am I right?”.

PS: Also a problem could be in my way to wrapping my thoughts in to words. Complex thoughts wrapped in to sentences with alot of grammatical and punctuation errors, due to my English level, could be hard to understand, I assume. T_T Sorry for that.

It depends on the context which one to use.

”I did not think that...” - reporting a thought from the past ”as a fact from the past” and not so important to the context.

”I have not thought that...” present perfect because it’s important to the context at present point in time. For example the conversation topic the speaker hopes to talk about is about that thought.

NO! Present perfect is not just about things in the past. Present perfect can also be used to talk about event which continue to the present or even extending into the future!

As for Gemini, some garbage data must have been fed into its algorithm to give an answer like that. Probably from hundreds of spammed Indian or Philippine ”learn English in 3 months and speak like a native” sites which copy-paste garbage stolen from other Indian websites which is simply wrong for standard English and written by people who are not genuine native speakers of English.

”It occurred / has occurred to me that .... ” is a thought which suddenly happened, usually without prompting. It is more specific than simply ”think”. ”it came to me that...” is much more used in American English than British English in my experience.

How not to? Looks like I mixed all tenses in previous comment, plus mistakes. T_T
Gemini described a difference but I’m not sure what I should use there. How would a native like you say this?
”I did not think that...”
”I have not thought that...”
As I understand, the second should be better because, as Gemini said, it means I am talking about the past, but though came just now.
PS: Gemini saying that I should use ”occure” instead of ”come” for thoughts in mind. Is it right? In my language we use both, but ”come” is more common.

No worries!

Thank you.
I was focused on a ”mean” and did not thought than ”shady” is better here.

It is not a synonym but it is good for me to know. I used to think of ”-ish” only as time related thing. Thanks you for highlighting this topic.