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Re: feature/eglot-texi-manual 4725c123f3 2/5: ; eglot.texi: Fix typos an


From: Gregory Heytings
Subject: Re: feature/eglot-texi-manual 4725c123f3 2/5: ; eglot.texi: Fix typos and minor inconsistenciesfeature/eglot-texi-manual 4725c123f3 2/5: ; eglot.texi: Fix typos and minor inconsistencies
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 20:34:00 +0000



if the existing text is not clearly incorrect, don't change it, even if there's some guide that says it's 'wrong'. 'which' vs 'that' falls in that camp


IMHO, it doesn't.  And, FWIW, here's what the CMOS says:

that; which. These are both relative pronouns. In polished American prose, _that_ is used restrictively to narrow a category or identify a particular item being talked about {any building that is taller must be outside the state}; _which_ is used nonrestrictively---not to narrow a class or identify a particular item but to add something about an item already identified {alongside the officer trotted a toy poodle, which is hardly a typical police dog}. _Which_ is best used restrictively only when it is preceded by a preposition {the situation in which we find ourselves}. Nonrestrictively, it is almost always preceded by a comma, a parenthesis, or a dash. (In British English, writers and editors seldom observe the distinction between the two words.) Is it a useful distinction? Yes. The language inarguably benefits from having a terminological as well as a punctuational means of telling a restrictive from a nonrestrictive relative pronoun.



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