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I'm hardly contemptuous. If I had a higher opinion of asterisk, I would still assume it's an error as that's exactly what it looks like. Also, do you google t

I'm hardly contemptuous. If I had a higher opinion of asterisk, I would still assume it's an error as that's exactly what it looks like. Also, do you google the title of every article you read? Why would you say this as if that's something you expect me to do. I'm not american, Hacker News is full of us, why would you assume that a specific sentence with a grammatical error is "well known". You don't outright call me acting in bad faith, but you sure imply it. I am not embarrased at all, though I am grateful for the other commenter explaining the very nation-specific joke. edit: I checked the video, it's thirteen years old! I wouldn't even expect an american to remember that.

selimthegrim 3y ago
It was extremely well publicized at the time and I remember it well despite being in junior high school.
PoignardAzur 3y ago
I'm not american and I wasn't familiar with that bush quote; but my first assumption upon reading that typo would probably have been "Oh, they're joking about making grammatical mistakes because the subject is schoolchildren". But then again, I had a higher opinion of the magazine to start with. I don't think you were being contemptuous, exactly, but I do think the train of thought you were describing is one often found on Hacker News, that boils down to "stop at the first problem I see and declare the rest is probably not worth considering". Maybe that process works well for filtering out things you don't want to spend attention on, but it's going to have false positives, and maybe it's a little grating when you confidently present one of these false positives as a rebuttal to other people praising the overall quality of the writing. (See also: that guy in this thread who got flagged for replying "Do they claim to?" implying they only engaged far enough to read the headline and come up with a sarcastic reply.)

selimthegrim 3y ago

It was extremely well publicized at the time and I remember it well despite being in junior high school.

PoignardAzur 3y ago

I'm not american and I wasn't familiar with that bush quote; but my first assumption upon reading that typo would probably have been "Oh, they're joking about making grammatical mistakes because the subject is schoolchildren". But then again, I had a higher opinion of the magazine to start with. I don't think you were being contemptuous, exactly, but I do think the train of thought you were describing is one often found on Hacker News, that boils down to "stop at the first problem I see and declare the rest is probably not worth considering". Maybe that process works well for filtering out things you don't want to spend attention on, but it's going to have false positives, and maybe it's a little grating when you confidently present one of these false positives as a rebuttal to other people praising the overall quality of the writing. (See also: that guy in this thread who got flagged for replying "Do they claim to?" implying they only engaged far enough to read the headline and come up with a sarcastic reply.)