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Re:Larry Flynt has died by soheil on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:33PM (#26097568)
No we don't. I was not objecting to Larry Flynt or the Hustler Magazine in any way, it was just a point of grammatical ambiguity, see my reply to another user complaining about the same thing as you are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26097449

Looks like I've struck a chord among some HN users unintentionally.

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Re:Larry Flynt has died by teh_klev on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:40PM (#26097629)
See my comment addressing the sibling comment to yours. If instead the title was "Stripe founder...." I highly doubt anyone would blink an eye.
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Re:Larry Flynt has died by p1necone on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:54PM (#26097723)
Of course they wouldn't, because "Stripe" is not a word commonly used to describe people in the tech world.
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Re:Larry Flynt has died by teh_klev on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:58PM (#26097753)
If the title was "Spectator founder....", re-evaluate your argument. Also I'm pretty sure "Hustler" is a noun, not an adjective. And adjective is a modifier to a noun, e.g. he was a serious hustler.
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Re:Larry Flynt has died by slumpt_ on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:01PM (#26097776)
This is the weirdest thing to be so aggressively confrontational about...
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Re:Larry Flynt has died by p1necone on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:13PM (#26097846)
I don't know how to respond to someone telling me I'm lying about having difficulty parsing a sentence, and being this wound up about it. This is bizarre.

Also I stopped calling it a noun, better?

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Re:Larry Flynt has died by teh_klev on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:14PM (#26097857)
I apologise and have removed that part of the comment, but sometimes HN exasperates me, and the flush of a few glasses of wine probably tipped me over the edge a bit.
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Re:Larry Flynt has died by mannerheim on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:19PM (#26097890)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_adjunct
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