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Latest comment: 3 years ago by Equinox in topic Correct redirect?

Correct redirect?

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Why does "along those lines" redirect to this one? Don't they belong to two different word classes? --Mortense

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(talk) 17:49, 1 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

Because the phrases are semantically interchangeable: "along the lines of X" is the same as "along those lines" when "those" refers to X previously mentioned. Equinox 17:55, 1 December 2021 (UTC)Reply