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This is a good example of why you need copy-editors. Sometimes your edits end up making a sentence that doesn't make sense. Although I thought Ars did have co
by smackfu 13y ago
This is a good example of why you need copy-editors. Sometimes your edits end up making a sentence that doesn't make sense.
Although I thought Ars did have copy-editors.
- selmnoo 13y agoSorry, I don't get it, what's wrong with that sentence?
- smackfu 13y agoA is a reference to B which is a reference to A. So A is just a reference to A, and B has nothing to do with it.
- selmnoo 13y agoHow do you know B has really nothing to do with it in this case? I was assuming that Ars did the research and had some evidence to believe that B was true and thus relevant.
- theoh 13y agoNo, it's not as simple as A referring to A. The two occurrences of "by and large" are distinct. See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type–token_distinction#Occurrences http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type–token_distinction#Occurr...