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[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’ll save you the trouble of looking it up:

Since as a conjunction can refer both to causation and to the passage of time […], and the mavens believed strongly that since there's potential confusion over which meaning of since is meant, one should avoid since as a causal conjunction.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/since-as-because-usage

As a foreign learner I’ve never heard of this debate. To me, “since” simply has two meanings, like almost every other word in English.

[–] nebula42@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

naw that ain't the problem it's that I don't like how language is taught as something completely still and unchanging when it very much isn't

[–] LordAmplifier@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

(...) the mavens believed strongly that since there’s potential confusion over which meaning of since is meant, one should avoid since as a causal conjunction.

I see what you did there, Merriam Webster.