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I never downvote anything, so I'm not sure, but maybe the use of "advise" and "canon" triggered negative votes?
by cm3 10y ago
I never downvote anything, so I'm not sure, but maybe the use of "advise" and "canon" triggered negative votes?
- SonOfLilit 10y agoThanks (if you're still reading this thread), I didn't know "advise" carried negative connotations. I guess it's one of those words that I learned from a dictionary and never stopped to notice that English speakers use it only in much more formal situations than the word in my native language that I'm trying to evoke. Should that maybe have been "recommend"?
- cm3 10y agoEnglish isn't my 1st language either, but the power of downvotes is misused a lot on the internet, especially when there's no public trail who downvoted. Advise and canon may just carry too strong of a meaning for those who grew up in English-speaking school systems.