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1) I edited it once, immediately after initially posting it - to add a new sentence at the end. 2) Do you honestly care about something that is technically sli

by corin_ 14y ago

1) I edited it once, immediately after initially posting it - to add a new sentence at the end. 2) Do you honestly care about something that is technically slightly incorrect when really it's fine in an informal setting? 3) Not sure how it would be odd, even if my coment had been litered with speling mistakes. I was commenting on the content of that sentence, not how it was written. Feel free to be a pedant the next time you see my bitching about someone's spelling or grammar.

dfc 14y ago
1. Seriously? I cannot sleep so I will play along; you edited the post at least three times. At first I got an email from hnnotify[1] with: "I'm aware of its meaning, I was asking why you felt the need to use it." When I visited the "my threads" link on HN you had included: "Admittedly I'm pretty tired, but I'm not seeing the error you noticed." Then I clicked "link" because the thread was so nested we had hit the cool off period and there was no reply link in the long discussion page. At that point you had included the "passive aggressive" line. I typed my response and did a "select all + copy" followed by a reload just to make sure you had not edited it again. I thought it looked like it was typeset slightly differently but I could not identify precisely what had changed. At that point I changed the "three" to "three or four" and submitted my answer. 2. Yes. Before I charge someone (who writes for a living) with producing the most irrelevant sentence I am at least going to try and meet the standards of my 8th grade english teacher. It is funny that the person who knows "what should have happened" is always the arm-chair quarterback. 3. "even if my coment[sic] had been litered[sic] with speling[sic] mistakes." Are you screwing with me? If so well played because I almost woke my girlfriend up when I realized what you did with that sentence. [1] HNNotify sends almost instantaneous email notifications when you have a reply. It is a great way to avoid clicking "threads" every 15 minutes. But it also comes in handy for petty discussions like this. My favorite is reading comments that get deleted shortly after posting. http://www.hnnotify.com http://www.hnnotify.com
- corin_ 14y ago
  1) I thought you were referring to my original comment, i.e. the one whose grammar we were discussing, not a different one that wasn't being discussed. That one, yes I edited it twice, firstly because I felt my one-sentence reply was overly blunt, then again because having decided my original comment wasn't nice, I then felt neither was your [sic], so I added in my point about that too. Not sure it really matters too much when, one again, I made these edits within a minute of posting. I'll show an "edit" mark in my comment if there's a chance someone might have replied and therefore been misrepresented, but why bother when hardly anybody will have read it yet? (You two make changes like this, I notice you at first missed "litered" and "speling".) 2) Again... relevance? The reason I "was screwing with you" was to make the point that spelling and grammar are not the be all and end all. A good point can be made with terrible spelling, and nonsense can be written impeccably skillfully. "Im board of this discussion now" vs. "This discussion fascinates me", one of those is a valid statement, the other is grammatically correct.
  - dfc 14y ago
    Initially I missed "coment" and "speling," so I was not sure if you were screwing with me. I almost woke my girlfriend up when I noticed the trifecta. (The "you two[sic]" was not as funny) In my opinion spelling/grammar mistakes are indicative of an author who has not put much effort into something because they do not care about the outcome. If someone is willing to take the extra thirty seconds to read over what they wrote I take that as a signal that the writing is worth my time. But I might be in the minority here. My first job (and 2nd and 3rd) was at a restaurant and it was ingrained in me that the little things add up. I can still remember my boss saying "Doogie, if we do not take the time to lay the forks out straight, why should customers expect that we took time to prepare the food well?"
    - corin_ 14y ago
      They can also be indicative of an author who slept 2 hours before getting up at 1am to spend hours over spreadsheets and powerpoint presentations so to make up for the fact that the shit is hitting the fan on the same day that he has to spend most of it out of the office in meetings, and started commenting on HN as a short break away from working :) And now it's time to head into the office for a couple of hours! p.s. Fun fact, the "two" was a genuine mistake. When I don't pay attention my hands often type ridiculous phonetic errors, such as their/there. Heh, even as I wrote this I had "time" instead of "type".

by corin_ 14y ago

dfc 14y ago

1. Seriously? I cannot sleep so I will play along; you edited the post at least three times. At first I got an email from hnnotify[1] with: "I'm aware of its meaning, I was asking why you felt the need to use it." When I visited the "my threads" link on HN you had included: "Admittedly I'm pretty tired, but I'm not seeing the error you noticed." Then I clicked "link" because the thread was so nested we had hit the cool off period and there was no reply link in the long discussion page. At that point you had included the "passive aggressive" line. I typed my response and did a "select all + copy" followed by a reload just to make sure you had not edited it again. I thought it looked like it was typeset slightly differently but I could not identify precisely what had changed. At that point I changed the "three" to "three or four" and submitted my answer. 2. Yes. Before I charge someone (who writes for a living) with producing the most irrelevant sentence I am at least going to try and meet the standards of my 8th grade english teacher. It is funny that the person who knows "what should have happened" is always the arm-chair quarterback. 3. "even if my coment[sic] had been litered[sic] with speling[sic] mistakes." Are you screwing with me? If so well played because I almost woke my girlfriend up when I realized what you did with that sentence. [1] HNNotify sends almost instantaneous email notifications when you have a reply. It is a great way to avoid clicking "threads" every 15 minutes. But it also comes in handy for petty discussions like this. My favorite is reading comments that get deleted shortly after posting. http://www.hnnotify.com http://www.hnnotify.com

corin_ 14y ago
1) I thought you were referring to my original comment, i.e. the one whose grammar we were discussing, not a different one that wasn't being discussed. That one, yes I edited it twice, firstly because I felt my one-sentence reply was overly blunt, then again because having decided my original comment wasn't nice, I then felt neither was your [sic], so I added in my point about that too. Not sure it really matters too much when, one again, I made these edits within a minute of posting. I'll show an "edit" mark in my comment if there's a chance someone might have replied and therefore been misrepresented, but why bother when hardly anybody will have read it yet? (You two make changes like this, I notice you at first missed "litered" and "speling".) 2) Again... relevance? The reason I "was screwing with you" was to make the point that spelling and grammar are not the be all and end all. A good point can be made with terrible spelling, and nonsense can be written impeccably skillfully. "Im board of this discussion now" vs. "This discussion fascinates me", one of those is a valid statement, the other is grammatically correct.
- dfc 14y ago
  Initially I missed "coment" and "speling," so I was not sure if you were screwing with me. I almost woke my girlfriend up when I noticed the trifecta. (The "you two[sic]" was not as funny) In my opinion spelling/grammar mistakes are indicative of an author who has not put much effort into something because they do not care about the outcome. If someone is willing to take the extra thirty seconds to read over what they wrote I take that as a signal that the writing is worth my time. But I might be in the minority here. My first job (and 2nd and 3rd) was at a restaurant and it was ingrained in me that the little things add up. I can still remember my boss saying "Doogie, if we do not take the time to lay the forks out straight, why should customers expect that we took time to prepare the food well?"
  - corin_ 14y ago
    They can also be indicative of an author who slept 2 hours before getting up at 1am to spend hours over spreadsheets and powerpoint presentations so to make up for the fact that the shit is hitting the fan on the same day that he has to spend most of it out of the office in meetings, and started commenting on HN as a short break away from working :) And now it's time to head into the office for a couple of hours! p.s. Fun fact, the "two" was a genuine mistake. When I don't pay attention my hands often type ridiculous phonetic errors, such as their/there. Heh, even as I wrote this I had "time" instead of "type".