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AppleFanboy Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Rules related / relating to?

Exact rules relating to handicaps can vary from country to country.

Can I use related to? Are both ones correct?

If so, which one does it sound more native..?
  

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'Relating to' = on the topic of 'Related to' = associated with

— Mister Micawber

  • 'Relating to' = on the topic of 'Related to' = associated with
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'Relating to' = on the topic of
'Related to' = associated with
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But don't 'rules on the topic of handicaps' and 'rules associated with handicaps' mean the same..?

Even if there might be a small difference in nuance, don't they mean the same ultimately?
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I don't think so. In any case, I suggest

Exact rules relating to handicaps can vary from country to country.
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I see.. how about the following ones?

The rules are relating to handicaps.

The rules are related to handicaps.

In this case which one should I use?

Or does it vary depending on my intention?
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You should ponder the meaning before you obsess about the words.
  • "Relating" may sound official, but unless you're willing to detail the relationship, it adds no more than the word "about."
  • If the rules vary, than they're not that exact, are they?
  • And the problem isn't so much that the rules can vary but that they do vary.
  • If the variance means things change depe
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicap_(golf)

The sentence is from Wikipedia so if you find 'vary by country' natural than vary from country to country', you can edit in Wikipedia.

What I am curious about is..

The rules are related to something.

The rules are relating to
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AppleFanboyThe sentence is from Wikipedia
I don't know many linguists who use Wikipedia articles as examples of the best English
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Of the people you know, what percentage are idiots? That's at least the percentage of Wikipedia editors and authors who are idiots. That's just the way Wikipedia works, so throwing Wikipedia up to me as an exemplar is without force.

There's neither anything grammatically wrong nor anything unnatural about the original sentence. In fact, it is the usual to find people writing eleven-wor
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I didn't know that Wikipedia was such a notorious website. I keep that in mind.

And I appreciate your answer. Now I understood the slight differences.
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Wikipedia is a wonderful site. I use it all the time. It is particularly useful for general introductions to technical subjects and for easily-compiled statistics and trivia. For everything else, I don't trust its conclusions without checking the sources. Fortunately, Wikipedia either footnotes these or warns you that they're missing.

You may safely ignore Wikipedia's style of writing
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