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I know I won't be thanked for pointing out non-technical infelecities in the writing, and I'm not a grammar nazi or anything but... "There was a lot of excellen
by BellsOnSunday 10y ago
I know I won't be thanked for pointing out non-technical infelecities in the writing, and I'm not a grammar nazi or anything but... "There was a lot of excellent Haskell writing this year. One can’t possible enumerate all of them..." A lot of excellent writing is a singular noun, then it refers to "them", plural. Exactly the same mistake made in the next paragraph.
I don't want to be picky but if you're writing something public, learn how to use your language right.
- xwowsersx 10y ago> I don't want to be picky but if you're writing something public Neither do I, but there should be a comma before the "but" there.
- hota_mazi 10y agoNo: these are dependent clauses, a comma would be incorrect.
- charlieflowers 10y agoActually a comma is needed because that is a compound sentence. The 2nd independent clause has a subject of "you" (implied) and a verb of "learn."
- GavinMcG 10y agoWhat you just wrote is a comma splice, by the way. You should read up on semicolons.
- burkaman 10y ago"infelecities" isn't a word.
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- the_duke 10y agoWhen you spend half of your comment on justifying it's existence, it might be the wisest choice to just not post it at all...