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Re:Ask HN: How many of you founders are girls ? by Terretta on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @06:04PM (#1199815)
> no misspellings. odd. proper use of punctuation. strange. I'd say the writer fails the Turing test

That's depressing.

Meanwhile, "[space]-[space]" rather than "--" for "—" is idiosyncratic, and since HN preserves original spaces in comments, ".[space]" rather than ".[space][space]" rules a few more of us out.

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Re:Ask HN: How many of you founders are girls ? by robin_reala on Thursday March 18, 2010 @07:23AM (#1200984)
Meanwhile, "[space]-[space]" rather than "--" for "—" is idiosyncratic

It’s not idiosyncratic, it’s British.

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