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🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm a young phoagody and you can think of me as your friendly guide to the English language. |
0:11.0 | We talk about writing, history, rules, and cool stuff. |
0:15.0 | Today I have a segment about the difference between the words although and while and a segment |
0:20.1 | about how to write with cliches. |
0:24.8 | I often have to tell people that their pet peeves aren't actually hard in fast grammar |
0:29.6 | rules. |
0:30.6 | I have to tell people it's okay to split infinitives and that in some cases it's |
0:34.8 | fine to end a sentence with a preposition or to use the word between when you're choosing |
0:39.8 | among more than two items. |
0:42.3 | I know it's upsetting to learn your nearest and dearest beliefs are wrong. |
0:47.2 | So this week I'm going to talk about my own mistaken peeve. |
0:51.3 | That bothers me no end when people use while to mean although. |
0:57.2 | But no matter how hard I looked I couldn't convince myself that I'm right. |
1:02.2 | You see I think although means in spite of the fact that as in although Sir Freigelot |
1:08.0 | is tall, squiggly an art vark consider him an equal. |
1:12.6 | Although is what's called a concessive conjunction meaning that it's used to express a concession. |
1:19.3 | On the other hand I believe while should be reserved to mean at the same time. |
1:25.4 | It should have a temporal sense as in while squiggly gathered wood, art vark hid the |
1:30.6 | maracas. |
1:32.5 | At first I was sure I was right because in his book Usage and Abusage Eric Partridge said |
1:37.9 | that while for although is a perverted use of the correct sense of while which properly |
1:43.6 | means at the same time. |
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