From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>
To: 20011@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20011: etc/PROBLEMS: updates, wording, typos
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 20:25:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnj3tzdo.fsf@violet.siamics.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dra8zqxdtt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:58:38 -0500")
>>>>> Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
>>>>> Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>> AIUI, there's nothing wrong with using “which” there, either.
> I disagree. Eg
> http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2012/01/that-versus-which.html
There, it documents the in-house style. As for the English at
large, Wikipedia quotes [1] Merriam-Webster’s (1995) thus:
[…] the facts of usage are quite simple. Virginia McDavid’s 1977
study shows that about 75 percent of the instances of /which/ in
edited prose introduce restrictive clauses; about 25 percent
nonrestrictive ones. We conclude that at the end of the 20th
century, the usage of /which/ and /that/ — at least in prose — has
settled down. You can use either /which/ or /that/ to introduce a
restrictive clause — the grounds for your choice should be stylistic
— and /which/ to introduce a nonrestrictive clause.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_relative_clauses
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-05 21:49 bug#20011: etc/PROBLEMS: updates, wording, typos Ivan Shmakov
2015-03-06 8:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-06 9:10 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-03-06 10:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-04 20:20 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-04-04 21:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-07 17:47 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-03-06 16:58 ` Glenn Morris
2015-04-04 20:25 ` Ivan Shmakov [this message]
2015-04-05 9:10 ` Richard Stallman
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