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Re:“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get... by benj111 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @03:39AM (#31821302)
Considering the number of times they used the word Harbinger, you would have thought they'd learn to spell it correctly, or at least consistently.
Re:“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get... by doodlebugging on Thursday June 23, 2022 @12:30PM (#31851467)
I agree. The inconsistency is like a text-based speed bump slowing my progress thru the paragraph and, like a physical speed bump, forcing me to look around to try to determine why the bump was necessary.
Re:“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get... by oh_sigh on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @11:52PM (#31845000)
Where is it spelled incorrectly or inconsistently? I hate how much they used it in the article (20 times), already a kind of a funny word set up for semantic satiation - but I didn't notice those errors.
Re:“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get... by lh7777 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:08AM (#31845693)
Also, the slug is "harbringer-of-doom.html".
Re:“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get... by matthewsmith2 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @12:26AM (#31845141)
There are multiple uses of Habringer as the spelling
Re:“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get... by jhugo on Thursday June 23, 2022 @12:41AM (#31845224)
All of the mistakes are in this paragraph:

> The researchers also claim that harbinger households voluntarily cluster: that when a harbinger household moves, it is likely that it will move to another habringer ZIP code (and nonhabringers move to nonhabringer households). Moreover, harbingers don't appear to learn their preferences from one another — a nonhabringer household that locates in a harbinger ZIP code doesn't alter its purchasing and political contributions to "loser" products and candidates.

Re:“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get... by standardly on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:39PM (#31854846)
Satiate me semantically please sir
Re:“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get... by mistersquid on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:14AM (#31845387)
> There are multiple uses of Habringer as the spelling

A “Habringer” is someone who brings the “Ha”.

Re:“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get... by elSidCampeador on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:01AM (#31845651)
smh you beat me to it
Re:“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get... by oh_sigh on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:31AM (#31857831)
lol, thank you. I will admit my logic for searching for errors was to ctrl-f for "harb" and then see how many matches had "r" vs "i" as the next letter. I never really contemplated that someone would misspell it in that manner.