On 2 September 2015 at 12:38, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 12:47:48AM +0200, Tim Tassonis wrote: >>> >>> >>> "hence" is a really outdated word, btw, which can easiily be replaced by >>> "therefore", drastically increasing the readability of your text to >>> readers >>> outside of Oxford. > > >> Really ? It seems a perfectly ordinary word to me (in England), but >> then my school exams (GCEs) many years ago were under the auspices >> of the Oxford examination board, so perhaps they've already >> indoctrinated me. ;-) > > > Hence seems like a good word to me and I've never been to England. > > -- Bruce
As a non-english speaker, I find this discussion fascinating. Does anyone know if there's a web site where one could find a somewhat authoritative source about issues like this one? Like, finding about different nuances in use between synonyms etc.? -- Emanuele Rusconi -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
