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Originally Posted by TGS
I would say that "choose books written by men" can mean either "choose books because they are written by men", or it can mean "choose books that happen to be written by men".
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But the poll questions were "prefer to read books by X." Could this conflict here possibly be over subtle differences between the structure of English and Danish? (I see you and Ea are both in Denmark.) In English, saying that "I prefer books written by men" is pretty unambiguous in meaning that "the reason I chose these books is because a man wrote them"-- it is a statement of deliberate choice.
The two sentences "
I prefer mostly books written by men." and "
Men write most of the books I prefer." do not mean the same thing in English, though I image in the structure of some languages (maybe Danish, maybe not) they might.