That word "neen" / restrictive "that"

[Mark A Mandel]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 AAllan at AOL.COM wrote:

#       Now this was
#a book I had written and rewritten so that all the kinks were out, so the
#editor didn't have much to do. But for a copy editor to read through a whole
#book and do nothing is like a state police trooper issuing no traffic
#tickets, so maybe for that reason this editor made a point of changing
#restrictive "which"es to "that"s.

"After he pees in it he likes the flavor better."
        Jubal Harshaw on editors, quoted approximately from memory,
        from _Stranger in a Strange Land_, Robert A. Heinlein

-- Mark A. Mandel