If you want to console someone without making them more upset, if you want not to, just stay there and keep saying “no” the next time. Really.
If a soccer team loses and one of the players who feels guilty in that loss is deeply sad because of this happening. The trainer observes that and wants to ask one of the player’s closest teammates to go to him and cool him down. How can I make a friend sit at the same table so I can talk with him? What statement should you suggest would sound natural in this scenario?
Everything is OK. My words are not consolation, but all people make mistakes and you shouldn’t feel this guilty.
Hey guys, come on man. Everything is OK. I don’t mean to console you, but all humans make mistakes and you shouldn’t feel this guilty. You look as though nothing is wrong.
The two ways both work for me, but I doubt if they are the ways a native speaker would
say it.
Opinions on how to console anyone aside, this is how I would phrase it:
Hey, man, come on, don’t sweat the game. I know there’s nothing I can say to make you feel better, but this isn’t worth getting down for.
What is your opinion? If you have what you were looking for, how could you find it?
For a more faithful reproduction of what you had said above (and if you really want to force the word console into your wording),
Hey, come on man. Everything is fine. I’m not trying to console you but everyone makes mistakes so you don’t need to feel guilty about it.
Please note that based on your scenario, I’m using informal, shared English. When writing a sentence in English, you should not use “for” at the end.
I changed the sentence “this guilty” to “guilty. I won’t give you a reason.” I assume that as Listener’s friend, we are trying to absolve him of all his guilt. So we absolve all of it by not specifying “this guilt” nor the implied “that guilt,” etc.
If you would take the time to read this piece by John Millard and Gary Clark in a serious serious piece for the Huffington Post, do you think it satirizes some introspection?
“When you say the very least, you know you’ll be able to say it forever.” So Alison Krauss and Ronan Keating had said they would do it again. “”My
favorite thing is to be called the “Jokebox” “.I eat nothing at all”
I like the first two. I’m mostly a vegetarian, I just like others. The second one sounds like the friend doesn’t actually want to console the sad player. What could be the reason for this behavior?
Which one sounds very feminine? What should my friend say with the
- confidence and pride of a friend: “I
- don’t go to the gym,
- I’ll get the game the next
- time”?
All is good. Everything is great. Some bad things never happen. I know saying everything is okay doesn’t really help, but you don’t need to feel guilt at all about that play, right? Everyone has a chance to make mistakes. But that’s for another day or two.
And even though he is consoling his friend, in a word, why should I never say “console” when talking about other people. This is, exactly.. However, you can use “consolation. ” As in, “If it’s any consolation, I think you did great out there.” ”
As a side note, we “cool down” angry people, not sad people. We can comfort sad people.
