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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by sneak on Friday April 10, 2020 @08:45AM (#22832457)
Don't sweat it, it's a common error made by native speakers too, myself included until I learned about it. :)
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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by zimpenfish on Friday April 10, 2020 @10:44AM (#22833512)
It's really not an error anymore because it's been in common usage for years.
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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by rriepe on Friday April 10, 2020 @12:33PM (#22834648)
Let them be. If we didn't have prescriptivists, everything would literally mean nothing.
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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by zimpenfish on Friday April 10, 2020 @12:57PM (#22834894)
And if that was the common usage that people agreed on and understood, that would be perfectly fine. It's literally how language works!
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