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https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ What are you trying to say? This comment made me the most upset×angry I've ever been on HN. Feels

by sdwr 5y ago

https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ What are you trying to say? This comment made me the most upset×angry I've ever been on HN. Feels like an abuse of language.

prvc 5y ago
The Victorian era was a high-point for our language, in my view.
GeoAtreides 5y ago
It's not abuse, it didn't even registered to me as something special, and I'm an ESL speaker. Some people, by dint of having read many books, have a rich vocabulary and use it without giving any thought to how well-read (or not) are their interlocutors.
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