"As Well."

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On May 9, 2007, at 12:16 PM, i wrote:

> ... an interesting case, because the competitors are "so" (which is
> much
> more frequent in conversation than in academic prose, though it's by
> no means limited to conversation) and "thus" and "hence" (which, like
> "therefore") are more frequent in academic prose than in conversation
> (much more so for "therefore" and "thus" -- which are the main
> competitors in formal contexts -- than for "hence")...

fixing the punctuation:

> ... an interesting case, because the competitors are "so" (which is
> much
> more frequent in conversation than in academic prose, though it's by
> no means limited to conversation) and "thus" and "hence" (which, like
> "therefore", are more frequent in academic prose than in
> conversation --
> much more so for "therefore" and "thus", which are the main
> competitors in formal contexts, than for "hence")...

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