The manner in which it was arrived

[Dan Goncharoff]

Sorry if this is coming across as extreme nitpicking.

For me, "where" is a term of place, and the copywriter in me does not
consider context to be a place. Once you cross that hurdle, however, I
still think the second "in" sounds redundant:

in the context where it appears

would sound fine to my ears if I thought context could take a "where"

"that" would work
"in which" would work, and resolves the second "in" issue.
DanG



On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Randy Alexander
<strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:35 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> How exactly would where fit in?
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> it would be hard to misread this in the context {where} it appears [in].
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>> I think the duplication of the "in" sounds wrong, even if it is
>> grammatically correct, and often the ears have it.
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>> DanG
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>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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>> > On Aug 3, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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>> >> This example intrigued me:
>> >>
>> >>> Though I agree: it would be hard to misread this in the context it
>> appears [in].
>> >>> (Derek Wykoff, comment 3/23/11 on Facebook)
>> >>
>> >> The omission of the duplicate "in" doesn't sound wrong to me, although
>> >> it does in this similar example:
>> >>
>> >> ...taking place in the same gym that Integrity, along with all the
>> >> other groups, had displays [in] during General Synod.
>> >> (card from Chris Ambidge of 5/9/10, about an evening of square
>> >> dancing at Brock University)
>> >>
>> >> I note that the first example above is not a that/where example.
>> >
>> > that's right.  but it is a zero/where example.
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>> > arnold
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