pet peeve: "that" vs "which"
Oct. 21st, 2005 12:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslMy new pet peeve: people who use "which" when they should use "that". I'm seeing this everywhere now that I pay attention to it!
There may be some grey areas, but lots of people jump right over the fuzzy line:
I cringe when I see:
"We should not endorse any projects which attempt to become too big."
"How would that help us prove scientific claims which are politically-charged?"
Even I get tempted to overuse "which". That's the most annoying part.
That's probably the same reason why it annoys me when non-Dutch people misuse "de" and "het": because I'm insecure myself. Probably the same reason why an ex-smoker would be extremely annoyed at people smoking around him.
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Here's a grey area: from here
"Chandler worked as a Data-Processor, a job which he thoroughly loathed."
There may be some grey areas, but lots of people jump right over the fuzzy line:
I cringe when I see:
"We should not endorse any projects which attempt to become too big."
"How would that help us prove scientific claims which are politically-charged?"
Even I get tempted to overuse "which". That's the most annoying part.
That's probably the same reason why it annoys me when non-Dutch people misuse "de" and "het": because I'm insecure myself. Probably the same reason why an ex-smoker would be extremely annoyed at people smoking around him.
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Here's a grey area: from here
"Chandler worked as a Data-Processor, a job which he thoroughly loathed."