Timeline for Can something be "between" just one other thing?
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| Jan 12, 2023 at 18:56 | comment | added | Lambie | What really gets up my nose is between you and I. [joke, ambiguous on purpose and wrong on purpose] | |
| Jan 12, 2023 at 17:49 | answer | added | Convocation | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 9, 2023 at 5:05 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @TimPederick I may have misunderstood you, then. My apologies. | |
| Jan 9, 2023 at 5:05 | comment | added | Tim Pederick | @tchrist The only thing I said was a mistake was using “between” of one thing. Are you disagreeing with me, or with the pedants? Because I also disagree with them, and perhaps I wasn’t clear enough about that. | |
| Jan 9, 2023 at 4:33 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @TimPederick Pedants maladroitly correct mistakes uncalled for by anyone. These are not mistakes. | |
| Jan 9, 2023 at 4:13 | comment | added | Tim Pederick | @tchrist Which part is untrue? That etymologically “between” is related to “twin” (and “two”, “twain”, etc.)? That etymologies aren’t definitions, and we can’t use the preceding fact to restrict “between” to two things? That there are pedants who nonetheless insist it should be used for two, despite common usage? That “between” isn’t used of one thing? It seems to me you’re arguing against a “fake rule” that I am reporting, not supporting. | |
| Jan 9, 2023 at 3:31 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @TimPederick I'm sorry, but that's simply untrue. It has never ever been true, either. It's a complete myth. It's a made-up fake rule which the linguists over on LanguageLog have specifically labelled Prescriptivist Poppycock. | |
| Jan 9, 2023 at 0:45 | history | reopened |
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| Jan 8, 2023 at 21:47 | comment | added | jimm101 | B is in A would work, in the same way that water is in a glass. You would never say water is between a glass. | |
| Jan 8, 2023 at 9:40 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Jan 7, 2023 at 23:51 | history | closed |
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| Jan 7, 2023 at 19:20 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @Tim This article at Espresso English discusses idiomatic (and that's virtually equivalent to acceptable, grammatical where grammar is involved) usage. I'd have marked 'The agreement among France, Prussia and Austria' incorrect when teaching. | |
| Jan 7, 2023 at 18:51 | comment | added | Tim Pederick | Etymologically, “between” is strictly for two things (it’s roughly “by-twin” in form). Etymologies aren’t definitions, and you can find many speakers using it of more than two things (where pedants would insist on “among”)… but I don’t think anyone would use it of one thing. | |
| Jan 7, 2023 at 17:40 | answer | added | G. Rem laughs at the MonicaC's | timeline score: -5 | |
| Jan 7, 2023 at 17:36 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | 'B is between the uprights of A' works. Note that there can be more than two 'surrounders': the Peak District lies between Manchester, Sheffield, Stoke and Derby. | |
| Jan 7, 2023 at 14:06 | comment | added | gidds | ‘Between’? It's a well-known footballing phrase… :-) | |
| Jan 7, 2023 at 13:56 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 7, 2023 at 11:42 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 7, 2023 at 9:06 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | I'm trying to figure how to describe the image in my head. Is it a feature that B doesn't touch A? Is it important that the shape shares no contact with A? | |
| Jan 7, 2023 at 3:18 | comment | added | Tinfoil Hat | Yes, you need two things in order for B to be "between." A is only one thing. But are you looking for a different word that would work? | |
| Jan 7, 2023 at 3:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1611558597225287682 | ||
| Jan 7, 2023 at 2:11 | history | edited | livresque | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 7, 2023 at 2:05 | answer | added | fertilizerspike | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jan 7, 2023 at 1:39 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 7, 2023 at 1:35 | answer | added | tchrist♦ | timeline score: 7 | |
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| S Jan 7, 2023 at 1:11 | history | asked | JACKY | CC BY-SA 4.0 |