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It's Simplygon and not simplygone. I would suggest you make a written note reminding that you sometimes misread words. And keep it near screen/phone.
by MikusR 9y ago
It's Simplygon and not simplygone. I would suggest you make a written note reminding that you sometimes misread words. And keep it near screen/phone.
- sp332 9y agoI know it's spelled Simplygon but it is pronounced the same way. If you said "Simplygon" to someone, they would probably think you'd said simply gone.
- MikusR 9y agoAccording to Wikipedia word polygon is pronounced as (/ˈpɒlɪɡɒn/) I don't see an e there.
- musage 9y agohttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gone https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gone But good job attempting to shame unrelated people with unrelated "reading disabilities"* just to make a point you don't even have. * Which ones would that be? Reading what you read "aloud in your head" with an actual grasp how to pronounce things? Any others you care to make up, or was it just the one and you thought using the plural would make it an even more sick of a burn?
- sam0x17 9y agoIt's an intentional pun, so he's not really misreading anything.
- dang 9y agoPlease don't post like this. It breaks the HN guidelines in many ways. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We ban accounts that do that repeatedly, as I'm sorry to say you have, so please take the rules to heart and fix this.