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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by jacquesm on Monday March 13, 2017 @02:46PM (#13861001)
No, because there are no blanks, adding either of those words would change the meaning of the sentence in a way that I don't support.
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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by ehsanu1 on Monday March 13, 2017 @06:40PM (#13863200)
You wrote:

Claims to the contrary the map is not the territory and a country is not a house.

The correction is saying this should be:

Despite claims to the contrary the map is not the territory and a country is not a house.

This does not seem to change the meaning, but rather makes the sentence read sensibly.

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