| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1003.1 | | COOKIE::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Wed Sep 09 1992 09:11 | 2 |
| "Whatever" is *better*, unless you are trying to be very emphatic
and call attention to the word.
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| 1003.2 | Depends on context | VMSMKT::KENAH | Keep on keepin' on... | Wed Sep 09 1992 10:02 | 0 |
| 1003.3 | They don't *quite* mean the same thing. | SMURF::BINDER | Ut aperies opera | Wed Sep 09 1992 10:23 | 11 |
| There is a good article on these words in Fowler. "Whatsoever" is
applicable to only one of the three uses of "whatever." Briefly, the
three are:
Interrogative: Whatever will we do?
Antecedent-relative: ...in what(so)ever component, big or small...
Concessive: Whatever you do, don't lie.
-dick
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| 1003.4 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | bad wiring. That was probably it. Very bad. | Wed Sep 09 1992 17:56 | 1 |
| Whatever you like, of course.
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| 1003.5 | re 1003.3 :-) | VNABRW::OSLANSKY_W | LAK�L Z'M�N W-�TH L'KH�L-H�FETS | Thu Sep 10 1992 02:38 | 6 |
| *Whatever* you're commenting, Dick, I'm always deeply impressed by your
education, inhaling your statements to expand my knowledge of languages
*whatsoever*. (But theriously, folkth!)
S ^C^, VV :-]
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| 1003.6 | | COOKIE::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Thu Sep 10 1992 06:42 | 1 |
| Inhaling is dangerous this year.
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| 1003.7 | Huh? Heck, whatever. | SHALOT::ANDERSON | Some fries with that, sir? | Thu Sep 10 1992 06:46 | 16 |
| I agree with .1 -- I see no difference whatsoever, except
perhaps for emphasis. I'm not sure where you're coming from
on this, though, so I don't know what kind of advice you need.
In day-to-day usage, I would say just ignore it.
Of all the books I have in my cube, Fowler is the only one that
even talks about "whatsoever." His advice, with its talk about
"concessive," "antecedent-relative," etc. seems gratuitously
confusing and complex. Good for the grammar dweebs, but if
you actually want to use the language, a little suspect. (BTW,
my version also mentions "whatsoever" only twice -- once in an
example, and once as an equivalent: "whatever (or whatsoever).")
BTW, my dictionary simply equates "whatever" and "whatsoever."
-- Cliff
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| 1003.8 | | CALS::THACKERAY | | Thu Sep 10 1992 12:19 | 10 |
| You can't simply equate Whatever and whatsoever without being
grammatically incorrect and sounding silly. For example:
"Whatsoever you do, don't touch that!"
"Whatsoever do I do with this bus bar?"
Dick Binder is right.
Ray
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