The manner in which it was arrived

[Dan Goncharoff]

Er, no.

A figure can appear in the rain, but rain is not a place, and using
"where" to refer to the rain  would probably be wrong.

As for using academic writing as proof of correctness, I don't think I
will make a lot of friends continuing this argument.

DanG



On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Randy Alexander
<strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> For me, "where" is a term of place, and the copywriter in me does not
>> consider context to be a place.
>>
>
> Along those lines, it would seem that "appear" doesn't work either; doesn't
> something need a place (even if it's a metaphorical place) to appear?
>
> COCA has 127 instances of "context where", most of which are from academic
> (presumably copyedited) writing.
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