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["Mathieu L." <lejatorn AT smgl.homelinux.net>]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:56:48PM +0200, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> Le mercredi 18 octobre 2006 à 11:48 +0200, Ladislav Hagara a écrit :
> > > I have to write an official document in proper english and one of my
> > > coworkers always uses the expression "in order that" even in that
> > > document. I've been told at school that the only correct one is "in
> > > order to", and some ppl on #sourcemage confirmed that, but some other
> > > pointed to some text where "in order that" was used. I haven't found
> > > anything on the net to confirm or contradict that.
> > >
> > > So, I'd like the opinion of good english speakers here please. :)
> > 
> > Of course I am neither good english speaker nor writer. :-)
> > I just ask Dr. Google:
> > "in order that"  is found 9 330 000 times
> > "in order to" is found 329 000 000 times
> > 
> > so "in order to" is better. :-)
> > 
> Funny, I see that you use the same method as me... ^^

That's not the point, there could be 9M ppl using it without knowing
it's not proper english. If I correct that formulation in that text, I
wanna be sure I'm right when I'm telling my coworker it's not proper
english (if she asks why I corrected of course).

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