Timeline for Can I remove the "nonetheless" in this sentence?
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 1:08 | vote | accept | AGamePlayer | ||
| Feb 15, 2016 at 4:14 | comment | added | Jim | Here, you can replace “but that nonetheless” with, “but despite that” You can leave it out but it becomes a slightly different sentence than the author’s original one. | |
| Feb 14, 2016 at 14:49 | answer | added | TimR | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 14, 2016 at 11:24 | comment | added | Colin Fine | There are many words with a discursive function, such as nonetheless, however, just that (at least in some cases) add nothing to the literal meaning of a sentence and could be removed, but which convey something about the discourse structure, or the speaker's attitudes. | |
| Feb 14, 2016 at 9:18 | comment | added | Schwale | It shows a contrast to what has been said before; but that nonetheless is more emphatic. I'd just use ... but that seems ... | |
| Feb 14, 2016 at 9:15 | history | asked | AGamePlayer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |