omg, this is SO funny

[vanishingemily]

Here are some brief passages of text from the textbook I am reading for my English class:Consider this quip of Winston Churchill's: "Be an optimist. There is not much use in being anything else." . . . If you want to take Churchill at his word and argue that we should indeed be optimists, say so explicitly. . . . What reasons can you give to prove

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[vanishingemily]

They should have written:

"...because [NOT "since;" since implies time passage, because implies causality, which is what they're getting at] probably an equal number of famous people have recommended pessimism as have recommended optimism."

OR:

"...because the number of people who have recommended pessimism/optimism is probably equal to the number of people who have recommended optimism/pessimism."