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Is anyone interested in pursuing the issue of the distinction between
since and because. I think I know, but I don't have a formal "rule" to go
by.
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And would anyone care to throw in the use of "as" as synonymous with
"because"? I have heard virulent opponents of this use, but it sound perfectly
right to me. Is there a rule I don't know about?
As in:
"As we have not yet implemented the code, we cannot confirm your bug
report."
Cheers,
Gwen (ggall -at- ca -dot- oracle -dot- com)
Oracle MultiDimension
"Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and
nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks."
