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		thaumasiotes 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 20... > I often ... write "though" when it should be "although" That is a purely imaginary "error". Anywhere you can use 'although', you are free to use 'though' instead.

bjourne 3 months ago [–]

Yeah, but you cannot use although anywhere you can use though, though.

thaumasiotes 3 months ago | [–]

That's true, but the one-way substitutability still means there is no such thing as "writ[ing] 'though' when it should be 'although'".

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