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		whoisjuan on March 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When or If As an adverb `when` is used mostly to refer to a time or moment. So semantically speaking `when` should be reserved for time conditionals only.

blowski on March 14, 2022 [–]

_When_ browser developers start caring about the semantics of one version of English grammar, then we'll have a lot of other work to do.

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