Talk:in such a way that

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in such a way that[edit]

"so that" —RuakhTALK 17:18, 14 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Mglovesfun (talk) 18:57, 14 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. If you can't parse it from its components, you just need to know more English, as with e.g. "I have a green hat". Equinox ◑ 22:47, 14 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. It is much more complex than "I have a green hat" and harder to define. "I have a green hat" is five words that are five different parts of speech, but in such a way that is a single part of speech (conjunction). Although it is a synonym of so that, we don’t have rules against synonyms. —Stephen (Talk) 23:11, 14 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Completely SOP: [ in + [ such + [ a + way ] ] ] + that. --WikiTiki89 (talk) 11:40, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
All words with spaces in between can be broken up into components. Keep. It's a synonym of so that but not a complete one. --Anatoli (обсудить/вклад) 00:09, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Matthias Buchmeier (talk) 07:58, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think this has some use - I look up French phrases which, like this one, are kind of SoPish with some regularity (e.g. "dans le même temps," "nulle part ailleurs," "plus ou moins," "sans doute"). It is useful to be able to check whether these sorts of conjuncting words mean they seem to, especially as the sort of common words that compose them tend to have an enormous variety of meanings. In this case, if way had senses 1 or 2 it could be taken to refer to routes "He drove to the party in such a way that he was late" implies that there was something about his driving that caused him to be late, rather than specifically the route which he took. keep Furius (talk) 10:00, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
He must die in such a way that others might live? No, it really is SOP. Delete. DAVilla 09:12, 20 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
google books:"in such a way that" gets an estimated 47 million hits, google books:"in such a manner that" gets 18 million, while google books:"in such a fashion that" gets about half a million. So this phrase certainly isn't unique. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:34, 20 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. - -sche (discuss) 03:11, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. bd2412 T 13:10, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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