[Ads-l] "substitute" woes

[Barretts Mail]

In general, I have trouble remembering which way “substitute” is supposed to work, but this is an example where I was genuinely confused and looking at this thread, it appears I was correct:

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/easy-no-knead-bread <https://getpocket.com/explore/item/easy-no-knead-bread>
Easy No-Knead Bread
Chungah Rhee

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You can substitute 1 cup of all-purpose flour for whole wheat flour, keeping the rest of the recipe the same.

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Ingredients:

3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
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Benjamin Barrett (he/his/him)
Foremrly of Seattle, WA

> On 9 Nov 2019, at 14:03, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Update:
> 
> 2019 Bowling Green Daily News
> https://www.bgdailynews.com/blogs/reel_to_reel/midway-fails-to-get-off-the-runway/article_6a6f9b33-ad9c-53d3-adf0-e9ea8b5c9dc6.html
> 
> It's an overstuffed CGI extravaganza that substitutes humanity for special
> effects.
> 
> JL
> 
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 9:18 PM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ersetzen takes as its object the thing being replaced, and durch is the
>> preposition used with the thing coming in to take its place.
>> 
>> On Sep 17, 2016 2:15 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Not sure which verb you're thinking of
>>> 
>>> 
>>> That makes two of us! Even more anecdotally, back in the '80's a friend
>>> told me of thinking that he was going to have to revise his thesis after
>>> reading a German Accepted Authority's statement that he interpreted to
>> the
>>> effect that "X is substituted by Y," when his entire thesis was based on
>>> the assumption that Y is replaced by X. Resorting to a good
>> German-English
>>> aborted the myocardial infarction.
>>> 


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