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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by ethbro on Monday August 05, 2019 @02:26PM (#20616834)
*Formenting \w+ supremacy
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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by colanderman on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:00PM (#20617396)
GP is correct: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foment
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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by PhasmaFelis on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:15PM (#20617603)
I think "\w+" is regex for "one or more non-specified words," so they're nitpicking that it should be "* supremacy" instead of "white supremacy", in a weirdly obtuse and technical way.
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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by ethbro on Monday August 05, 2019 @08:07PM (#20620679)
Aside from the misspelling, it was because I didn't want to look up how to escape italics.
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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by Godel_unicode on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:14PM (#20617579)
You are correcting someone who used the word correctly. You have also misspelled "fomenting".

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/foment

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