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Re:New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art makes available alm... by Bud on Thursday May 22, 2014 @12:46AM (#7782157)
Your second sentence doesn't mean what you think it means.

"Substitute X for Y" means to replace Y with X. Not the other way around. This is often misused.

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Re:New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art makes available alm... by jedahan on Thursday May 22, 2014 @01:16AM (#7782233)
hmm, I switched to using the word replace, is that better grammar?
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