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# R38 (skill-language-style): "since"/"as" used for causation should be
# "because" -- Latin-adjacent formality, not a Latin term itself.
# EXPERIMENTAL -- flagged for empirical testing: "since"/"as" are also
# legitimately temporal ("since Qt 6.0", "as the event arrives"), and a
# lexical rule can't reliably tell the two senses apart. See test fixture.
extends: existence
message: "If '%s' means 'because' here, write 'because' -- keep 'since'/'as' for time (see R38)."
link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/word-choice
level: suggestion
scope: sentence
ignorecase: true
tokens:
- '^(?:Since|As) (?!Qt |soon |long )[a-z]+ '