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Re:Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (2014) by Chris2048 on Sunday July 03, 2016 @03:52PM (#12027353)
> Have you read the article?

'Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."'

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (2014) by mablap on Sunday July 03, 2016 @04:17PM (#12027441)
Noted. However I think the tone I used is different than what is given as an example. I was really asking the question, since depending on the answer, our disagreement would be on a different level.
Re:Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (2014) by Chris2048 on Monday July 04, 2016 @08:19AM (#12030259)
True, but it's a burden on mods (read: dang) to have to make that distinction, are far easier, in this case, to self moderate. No problems in any case :-)