RE: usage question: since/because

["sbuckley" <sbuckley -at- onlinewriter -dot- com>]

It's hard to tell just from this sentence without actual content.

[Case 1]  Is it definitely due to "properties often containing password
information" that "this version also hides the properties attributed from
JMX?"

OR

[Case 2]  Is it the case that sometimes due to the fact that "properties
often contain password information" that "this version also hides the
properties attributed from JMX?"

Case 1 - Use "because."

Case 2 - Use "since" and consider restructuring the sentence.


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Behalf Of Kimberly McClintock
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:40 PM
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Subject: usage question: since/because

Here's a sentence that appeared in a doc I'm editing:

 

This version also hides the properties attribute from JMX
<file:///Y:\users\docs\UnderReview\Kimberly\c3p0\0.9.1.1\jmx>  access
since properties often contains password information.

 

I would have used 'because' instead of 'since'. (Possibly there is an
EVEN BETTER way to rewrite the sentence, but I'm editing here, not
writing so I don't want to do that.) I do, however, wonder if anyone
knows what's wrong - if anything - with using 'since' here. I looked it
up and it's apparently a legitimate alternative to 'because'...but it
doesn't 'sound' right to me... 

Kimberly McClintock

 

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