On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 12:04:53AM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> writes: > > > _Description: What machines should be allowed to use BitlBee? > > > > This sounds strange to me and I would rather tend to write "WHICH > > machines should be allowed to use Bitlbee ?". > > "Which" (in the sense of lequel/laquelle/etc. if I remember my > high-school French properly ;-) ) sounds somewhat better to my native > ear, but I don't think I'd go so far as to count "what" as actually > incorrect. I concur that "which" is preferable in this context. You would often hear "what" in this same context in conversational speech, however. -- G. Branden Robinson | The greatest productive force is Debian GNU/Linux | human selfishness. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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