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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You’re really making me work for it when you could just read it and back off:

  The specific usage of “curious if” is perfectly acceptable in much the say way that “curious whether” is acceptable. It does not imply a conditional.

  I’m curious whether other people feel like I do.

  “Curious,” by the way, has a few other variants:

  I’m curious if other people feel like I do.

  I’m curious as to whether other people feel like I do.

  I’m curious about whether people feel like I do.

  To directly answer your question:

  However, is it actually improper or logically incorrect?

  No, it is not improper or logically incorrect. Which of these is more appropriate is a matter of personal and regional preferences.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    So a complete version of your original comment would be, per these examples, “I am curious about who sponsored it”? Because my original reply was a response to the implied question: it says who sponsored it in the article, so you can read it and find out.

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    • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Stop drinking. Read instead.

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