Re:What every programmer should know about memory (2007)
by gugagore on Friday November 20, 2015 @05:26PM
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I disagree with your judgement about the grammatically of the utterance. And if you've ever written comments about anything, for example, someone's writing or pictures, you'll probably say things like
"me in Peru" or "needs revising" or "word is inappropriate"
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Re:What every programmer should know about memory (2007)
by xiaoma on Friday November 20, 2015 @10:06PM
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I would never say, "word is inappropriate". I would say, "This word is inappropriate". It's clearer and there's almost no cost to using a well-formed sentence.
Similarly, I find comments where the single word "this" is used as an entire sentence detract from a forum based site. I can talk to u in allthememes! and sms abbreviations, but I chose to save that register for chat and look for something a bit more correct on forums. I readily admit that HN has been slowly trending away from that for nearly its entire existence.
Re:What every programmer should know about memory (2007)
by gugagore on Monday November 30, 2015 @06:55PM
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I was on the subway and saw "DON'T LEAN ON DOOR" and remembered this thread.
Your comment about "this" and internet shorthand and memes is not related to your grammaticality judgement, unless you are admitting to conflating "clarity" with "propriety".