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Subject:Re: Since/Which From:cjs10 -at- CORNELL -dot- EDU Date:Wed, 2 Oct 1996 10:25:18 -0400
On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Williams Diane wrote:
> >>I would choose "because" -- since "since" isn't strong enough to express
> real purpose. "Since" is best used in phrases like the one I just
> used it in ...<
> Nope. This is another perfect argument for using because! "I would
> choose "because" -- ***because*** "since" isn't strong enough to express
> real purpose.
> :-D
Diane! That's what I just said! But maybe you got lost in all the
quotation marks. Read again?