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Discover Ludwig"rather as if" is an acceptable phrase to use in written English
This phrase is used to contrast a current situation with what might have been expected or what has been assumed. For example, "The sky was a deep orange, rather as if the sun was setting over the horizon."
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It seemed rather as if he hadn't.
It is rather as if they are hoarding their secrets.
It is rather as if the Chinese were excluded from the Olympic Games".
It was, rather, as if sound itself was revealed as melancholic phenomenon.
It was rather as if the world's largest steelworks had begun pouring molten metal all over the neighbourhood.
It looks, rather, as if Chaissac is recycling tried and true formulas -- imitating himself just as a real professional would.
It's rather as if poets were ordered forthwith to desist from sonnets, or one-act plays were banned in theatre.
The conflicting standards treat brands rather as if they were electrons that can be in two places at once.Accountants seem content to live with such quantum weirdness.
These days in the cheerfully "out" international heroin community, users contact each other and talk about heroin rather as if it were a fine wine.
His motorcade was complete chaos, rather as if command of NASCAR had been handed over to ten-year-old boys, but somehow he arrived in one piece.
Employees at the company do not talk about food as food, but rather as if they were programming an app to be sold in the iTunes store.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com