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Article is from 2007. (And as someone else writes, details have changed and the article is rather detailed.)
by gpvos 11y ago
Article is from 2007. (And as someone else writes, details have changed and the article is rather detailed.)
- xiaoma 11y ago>Article is from 2007. Do you mean the article? Do you mean an article? There's a missing article in this comment. Edit: downvoting doesn't make it any less true. However unrepentant about bad grammar you may be, the point stands and I don't regret the comment.
- dboreham 11y agoI think it is very clear that he means the cited article. The post title should include the year (2007) since technology has changed somewhat in the 8 years since.
- gugagore 11y agoI disagree with your judgement about the grammatically of the utterance. And if you've ever written comments about anything, for example, someone's writing or pictures, you'll probably say things like "me in Peru" or "needs revising" or "word is inappropriate"
- xiaoma 11y agoI would never say, "word is inappropriate". I would say, "This word is inappropriate". It's clearer and there's almost no cost to using a well-formed sentence. Similarly, I find comments where the single word "this" is used as an entire sentence detract from a forum based site. I can talk to u in allthememes! and sms abbreviations, but I chose to save that register for chat and look for something a bit more correct on forums. I readily admit that HN has been slowly trending away from that for nearly its entire existence.
- gugagore 11y agoI was on the subway and saw "DON'T LEAN ON DOOR" and remembered this thread. Your comment about "this" and internet shorthand and memes is not related to your grammaticality judgement, unless you are admitting to conflating "clarity" with "propriety".
- dang 11y agoPlease don't do this here. Blasting someone like that is rude at best, and outright mean when English is not their first language, as is the case with so many users here.
- xiaoma 11y agoIf there's anyone sensitive to the plight of a second language speaker, it's me. I can completely empathize with the struggle. It probably wasn't the best way to phrase it and it's likely a losing battle anyway. I've found native speakers (which I believe the person I was responding to was) using this form more and more on boards such as this. Mistakes with uncountable vs plural distinctions are also increasingly common. E.g., "there's many reasons" instead of "there are many reasons". As someone who spent years helping people with a variety of English problems including grammar, it's difficult to stop. I'll try to restrain this kind of comment to the articles themselves. There it's in the author's best interest to write in a way that doesn't cause the 30% or so of the population with stronger grammatical sensitivities to discount them.
- gpvos 11y agoI am strongly grammatically sensitive. And although I am not a native English speaker, I claim that the sentence is grammatically correct. It's just a shortened sentence form. Which is often appropriate on forums and similar.
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- TheBakaAniki 11y agoI wish that was the case. I wouldn't have to worry about DRAM latencies anymore