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Re:Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (2007) by soylentcola on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @01:31PM (#14903186)
And now we live in a time when I regularly hear people refer to their desktop wallpaper as their "screen saver" at work. I'm occasionally tempted to point out that a static wallpaper is the complete opposite of a screen saver, but then I remember that nobody likes a pedant (even an accurate one).
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Re:Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (2007) by ryandrake on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @02:10PM (#14903603)
> I remember that nobody likes a pedant (even an accurate one).

It's just that nobody likes being corrected. Try correcting someone's spelling or grammar on any Internet forum (including HN), and you'll be hit with a barrage of "you know what I meant" and "language changes" retorts.

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Re:Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (2007) by iainmerrick on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @02:48PM (#14904009)
> > I remember that nobody likes a pedant (even an accurate one).

> It's just that nobody likes being corrected.

Nice one.

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Re:Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (2007) by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @01:32PM (#14903199)
I remember lots of people doing that at least as far back as when Windows 3.x was common.
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