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There are HN guidelines, and there's also the English grammar with a plethora of tools to help those with a mother tongue different than English like myself. HN
by nikolay 10y ago
There are HN guidelines, and there's also the English grammar with a plethora of tools to help those with a mother tongue different than English like myself. HN is not a chatroom - it's a news website.
- scrollaway 10y agoYou're complaining about casing and one missing apostrophe... if you cared this much, how come you didn't notice the title is missing two words to even make sense?
- nikolay 10y agoI am complaining about things that even idiots should know (and that better yet HN should detect and reject). English is not an easy language to master but doing proper casing and basic punctuation right should be no challenge.
- scrollaway 10y agoYou keep implying people are idiots for missing apostrophes and not casing how your lordship likes it, I'll keep flagging your posts. In the mean time, neither CSS nor JS are featured in the dictionary so why on earth do you think your initial post is appropriate? I'm sure if you google enough you'll find a community that finds it acceptable as a whole to be rude to people who don't have proofreaders and a full publishing staff for their internet comments. Sure as hell hope HN isn't it.
- nikolay 10y agoFlag as much as you pervertedly enjoy it - I really don't care, and this here is not kindergarten! CSS and JS don't have to be in any dictionary as they are abbreviations! I'm not rude - you just fail to comprehend what I'm trying to say. If your issue is that you associate yourself with one of those, then I apologize, but I can't be rude as I don't expect idiots to hang in here as this is not Reddit.
- dang 10y agoPlease don't post uncivil comments to Hacker News.
- zepolen 10y agoYou are missing semicolons in there.
- nikolay 10y agoMy sentence is fine according to Grammarly, LanguageTool, and Word. So, can you be more specific, please? Anyway, I was talking about basic rules that even idiots should get right.
- xiaoma 10y ago> HN is not a chatroom - it's a news website. I normally wouldn't comment on this but since you've self-identified as being interested in correct grammar and punctuation, I will. A hyphen isn't appropriate where you've used it. It should be an em dash. You can type an em dash with shift+option+hyphen on a Mac or by holding alt and typing 151 on Windows. http://logicmason.com/2013/the-difference-between-hyphens-en-dashes-and-em-dashes/ http://logicmason.com/2013/the-difference-between-hyphens-en...