Sure, every community has pedants, but HN is supposed to be for news that relates to startups, technology, and web/software development. There are a ton of othe

Sure, every community has pedants, but HN is supposed to be for news that relates to startups, technology, and web/software development. There are a ton of other sites and communities where articles like this belong - reddit, digg, etc., HN just shouldn't be one of them. Would you post this article on a web-development-based subreddit? But hating "grammar nazis" is something everyone loves to do, and feeling mentally superior is something that the HN community loves to feel, so articles like this get up-votes while people who want to stay on-topic get down-votes. But, oh well, just another step towards the degradation of this community and its content. NBD.