Originally Posted By: tsuwm
>I'd prefer between to among

in both instances?

edit: BTW, the perp is shown in white, back in the top post.
(and Einstein is actually quoted as, "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.", so perhaps Wolfe is guilty of a bit of hypercorrection)


The two statements have different meanings. Einstein opines that the difference is an illusion and Wolfe that the concepts being compared are the illusions. This is more than hypercorrection. (I never learned to parse so I automatically look at the meaning not the grammar.)