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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/14/2019 3:30 PM, Jeffrey Clark
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<div dir="ltr">On May 14, 2019, at 14:12, SuStel <<a
href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" moz-do-not-send="true">sustel@trimboli.name</a>>
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<p>A dieting program is a procedure for training and a
procedure for being thin. Neither function is independent of
the other.</p>
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<div>Yes, but interdependence in purpose is not the same as
causality. </div>
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<p>And one is a nested relative clause and one is a nested purpose
clause. I'd only expect to see causality in a purpose clause.</p>
<p>While one can perhaps tease out some minute difference in meaning
here, I don't think it's something the average person would be
parsing — unless Okrand were to arbitrarily tell us that it is.<br>
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