Just because ... doesn't mean

A.M. Rush filted:
[nq:1]"Just because you want to go to the movies doesn't mean you can." "Just because you want to go to ... more proper to me. But I've never found a discussion of this construction in any grammar book I've come across.[/nq]
The first sounds better to me; it turns "just because etc" into a noun-equivalent and says "x doesn't mean y"...the second is acceptable but less ele

[nq:1]"Just because you want to go to the movies doesn't mean you can." "Just because you want to go to ... never found a discussion of this construction in any grammar book I've come across. Thanks in advance for your input.[/nq]
Go with the first one. I don't discuss grammar; I only use it.
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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[nq:2]"Just because you want to go to the movies doesn't ... book I've come across. Thanks in advance for your input.[/nq]
[nq:1]Go with the first one. I don't discuss grammar; I only use it.[/nq]
Absolutely. No discussions here. Yelling about Popes and stuff, but no discussion of construction, except flyways, of course.

[nq:1]"Just because you want to go to the movies doesn't mean you can." "Just because you want to go to ... never found a discussion of this construction in any grammar book I've come across. Thanks in advance for your input.[/nq]
The second one is the only version permissible in British English, so award yourself a gold star.
Matti

[nq:1]I'm now dealing with a particularly vicious case of STS because (just because) I remember an old song that ends ... mind I definitely hear a banjo strumming along, and it looks like Elvis and Paul McCartney have both recorded it..r[/nq]
Do you have Windows Media Player?

Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England

R H Draney wrote, in part:
[nq:1]I'm now dealing with a particularly vicious case of STS because (just because) I remember an old song that ends ... mind I definitely hear a banjo strumming along, and it looks like Elvis and Paul McCartney have both recorded it..r[/nq]
Well, there are (sort of) two songs here: "Just Because" and "You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone."
The first is the old coun

[nq:2]"Just because you want to go to the movies doesn't ... book I've come across. Thanks in advance for your input.[/nq]
[nq:1]The second one is the only version permissible in British English, so award yourself a gold star. Matti[/nq]
Not so fast, there Matti. The first one is the only version I've heard in the U.S. (from native speakers of AmE), so "A.M." may want to think a bit

[nq:1]Mike Barnes filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]Do you have Windows Media Player? [/nq]
[nq:1]Seems to be the one, but I still can't find it in Lissauer...there are two listed called "Just Because", one ... "Because", there are several possibilities...I'll have to check my Perry Como collection to see if it's the one from 1902..r[/nq]
I'm not sure what it is you're still looking for. If you want

[nq:2]"Just because you want to go to the movies, that ... book I've come across. Thanks in advance for your input.[/nq]
[nq:1]The second one is the only version permissible in British English, so award yourself a gold star.[/nq]
The proper British way to say it is 'Just because you want to go to the movies, that doesn't mean you can do'.
Charles Riggs
There are no accented letter

Mike Barnes filted:
[nq:1]I'm not sure what it is you're still looking for. If you want the lyrics and the writers, try Googling ... and called me your old Santa Claus. Well, I'm telling you I'm through with you Because, well well, just because.[/nq]
That's it, all right...I wasn't getting it before because (just because) I was trying to Google the phrase, and that wouldn't have hit the pa