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efilife
2y ago
Once one of my favorite underground artists deleted his album that was available on soundcloud. I messaged the guy without expecting any response, imagine how shocked I was when the guy made the album public on bandcamp just for me so I cou
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efilife
2y ago
Those are not opinions, I am handing you literal facts
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efilife
2y ago
I don't think this is the case. 1. If you accidentally say There is and want to use a plural after, (for example, a lot ), you can just say a number in between. The sentence stays correct, you just have to say 2 additional words.
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efilife
2y ago
The point is it shouldn't be spoken like this. It's just wrong. I'm wondering whether the person is unaware or is this some slang I don't know about. I've seen a bunch of people speak like this, I'm trying to u
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efilife
2y ago
I agree with all of your examples. But his sentence misses the crucial to be part to be correct. I'm just wondering whether this is deliberate and just a way of speaking informal english, or just the person doesn't know it'
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efilife
2y ago
It's not about the contraction of there is, there are has a completely different meaning
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efilife
2y ago
May I ask why you used there's instead of there are? There is likely sounds wrong and is wrong and I see it very often
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efilife
2y ago
Can someone explain why is this special? It doesn't look anything more than an algorithm implementation
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efilife
2y ago
Safari private?
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efilife
2y ago
Another one?
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efilife
2y ago
This is a problem with the language
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efilife
2y ago
So why are you lying?
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efilife
2y ago
Can't stress it enough: THIS IS NOT OPEN SOURCE. They are lying on their page.
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efilife
2y ago
They keystroke that produced the apostrophe was deliberable. The keystroke that produced not the letter I wanted was not
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efilife
2y ago
None of this is open source contrary to your claims. Blatant false advertising
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efilife
2y ago
This is ridiculous
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efilife
2y ago
What was your use case for it in Pokémon Go?
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efilife
2y ago
This is obviously a typo. Which can't be said about deliberately inserting an apostrophe into a word
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efilife
2y ago
Lets! Not let's! Lets is a form of word let , let's is a contraction of let us . Those are completely different words and are not inrerchangeable https://youryoure.com/?apostrophe
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efilife
2y ago
Is this a joke or a serious reply?
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efilife
2y ago
Yup, it's definitely my fault here. I should have phrased this in a completely different way. Nonetheless, I still think using a foreign phrase is pointless and potentially obfuscates the meaning of a sentence, since we already have en
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efilife
2y ago
I just thought it's pointless obfuscation of text, I'm just learning it's apparently a commonly used phrase
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efilife
2y ago
I had no idea it's common, first time seeing this phrase used
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efilife
2y ago
What's the point of saying raison d'être instead of just saying reason? Why did you use a random french phrase here?
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efilife
2y ago
Am I crazy or this one was posted here before? Not complaining, it's great, good to see it have that much traction Just checked, it was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40757951
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efilife
2y ago
Tablets are one of those pieces of technology that died off really quickly. For the tablet users - what do you use them for? They seem like oversized phones that don't support calls to me
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efilife
2y ago
Is this just an ad for a book?
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efilife
2y ago
I don't need it, but upvoting just because of your dedication to the project. It also looks very nice, and the extension is a cherry on top
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efilife
2y ago
Would you trust cloudflare to direct your traffic through their dns? I certainly don't. They have enough monopoly on the internet
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efilife
2y ago
> Reading is about an order of magnitude faster than writing not a native speaker, what does it mean?
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