Timeline for "Outside there is a money receiver which only accepts coins" - or "that only accepts coins"? Which relative pronoun is better?
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| Mar 9, 2021 at 16:07 | comment | added | MSalters | I'd suggest moving the "only" to the very end - that also disambiguates the sentence: "The vending machine outside takes coins only.". But in this case that's not very necessary because the sane reader understand the implied warning (it doesn't take payment cards or bills etcetera). It's this sort of thing that makes natural language AI really hard. | |
| Mar 9, 2021 at 12:12 | comment | added | Austin Hemmelgarn | I had actually missed your reference, though FWIW I used the term ‘bank note’ here because even in parts of the US it’s a bit more generic than ‘bills’ (None of the Americans I know would call a 1000 JPY note a ‘bill’ for example). | |
| Mar 9, 2021 at 4:25 | comment | added | Quuxplusone | @AustinHemmelgarn: What Brits call "banknotes," USians call "dollar bills." I had mentioned "bills" in my answer, but I can see how that would have been confusing if you think of a "bill" only as the thing on a duck's face. :) Edited in a parenthetical which might help. | |
| Mar 9, 2021 at 4:23 | history | edited | Quuxplusone | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 8, 2021 at 12:39 | comment | added | Austin Hemmelgarn | Nitpick: A money receiver could theoretically accept bank notes instead of only coins. Also, ‘only accepts coins’ could mean that it is designed to take bank notes or coins, but currently does not properly handle bank notes (unlikely, but I have actually seen a vending machine before that was broken in exactly the opposite way, it was supposed to accept bank notes or coins, but wouldn’t properly accept coins). | |
| Mar 7, 2021 at 19:17 | history | answered | Quuxplusone | CC BY-SA 4.0 |