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If your comments were comprehensible to most HN readers, I wouldn't see the problem in using Hiberno-English, or any other colloquialisms.
by 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 agoIf 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 agoThat'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.