the temporal subordinator "since"

[Beverly Flanigan]

I use logical "since" all the time, and "while" too.  ("Whereas" belongs in
legal documents.)

At 06:26 PM 10/26/2006, you wrote:
>On Oct 26, 2006, at 3:09 PM, i wrote:
>
>>but now the admonition to use "because" rather than logical "since"
>>is in the American Psychological Association style book, sigh...
>
>geoff pullum reminds me that thanks to the APA style book, Lawrence
>Erlbaum Associates insists on the substitution of "because" for
>logical "since" in all of its books.  geoff notes that that alone
>could be warping the occurrence of logical "since" downward in
>academic prose.
>
>geoff also reports that of the 20 occurrences of "since" in hume's
>Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 19 are logical and only one
>temporal.
>
>arnold
>
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