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Topic	"Just because A doesn't mean B" is a weird linguistic construct
divot1338 05/11/24 10:23:50 AM #9:	RetuenOfDevsman posted... Yeah. I'm sure there's some syntactic thing going on but it just intuitively feels weird for a "just because" to lead into a "doesn't mean." I forget all the names for these things but maybe it's like a dependent clause ("just because you have a million dollars") is being treated as a noun, or something. I dunno, I just know if you slow down and think about it, it's kinda weird. It really isnt. Weird is one of the ten million oddities in the English language. Using A and B in a logical comparison to simplify conversation; thats rational. --- Moustache twirling villain https://i.imgur.com/U3lt3H4.jpg- Kerbey <cite>divot1338 posted [p:980344955] in "Just beca... [t:80766830]...</cite> <quote>RetuenOfDevsman posted... </cite><quote>Yeah. I'm sure there's some syntactic thing going on but it just intuitively feels weird for a "just because" to lead into a "doesn't mean." I forget all the names for these things but maybe it's like a dependent clause ("just because you have a million dollars") is being treated as a noun, or something. I dunno, I just know if you slow down and think about it, it's kinda weird.</quote>It really isnt.Weird is one of the ten million oddities in the English language. Using A and B in a logical comparison to simplify conversation; thats rational. --- Moustache twirling villainhttps://i.imgur.com/U3lt3H4.jpg- Kerbey</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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