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Originally Posted by Anglika  The original enquirer only wanted to know which would read better in a letter to a business contact!  |
And you still haven't filled us in on just how you determined this, Anglika? Why should the original enquirer take you at your word when there were numerous equally valid opinions from others in the office?
If that was all that was required then why did you sit idle as inaccurate information about English was presented?
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However, native speakers rarely have accurate perceptions of these differences: a large representative corpus, ... is the only source of frequency information.
When it comes to describing differences across registers, native-speaker intuition is even less reliable.
... supposedly colloquial, inexplicit grammatical features sometimes turn out to be common in formal academic writing.
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