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• leoc 5y ago
  Yes, the quotation from dictonary.com exactly supports what I am saying. It's a piece of spoken dialect not standard English. It's as if I was after using hiberno-English constructions in a HN comment. Will you go on out of that.
  • blowski 5y ago
    If your comments were comprehensible to most HN readers, I wouldn't see the problem in using Hiberno-English, or any other colloquialisms.
    • leoc 5y ago
      If you consistently wrote in the way that Goofy talks then most HN readers would understand you just dandy but you wouldn't look no ways good. 'so [adjective] of a [noun]' is a Goofyism which doesn't belong in even middle-register spoken English. (Of course writing in dialect is completely fine if you're doing it for effect or for some other specific reason.)
      • blowski 5y ago
        That's completely your opinion, though - there's nothing in the guidelines or FAQs that say that. When on HN, I engage with things I find interesting, irregardless of how good their ritten. If we intimidate users with an expected level of ability in written English, we'll be excluding a lot of interesting comments.
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  • fenomas 5y ago
    There is no such thing as standard English. The link says only that the usage is informal, and HN comments are not formal writing.