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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by throwaway675309 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:07PM (#34034043)
What a fatuous argument. Have you considered that they may have used speech to text to dictate there (sic.) response from a mobile device, or that perhaps their (sic.) not a native speaker?

I find that the people who are overly concerned about semantics tend to be the people who have the least to offer in terms of substance. The idea that you can draw a correlation between one's technological aptitude and the inability to distinguish between various possessive adjectives is patently absurd.

Here's a pithy quote I created just for you: "it doesn't matter how many languages you can speak if you have nothing to say."

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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by TheSpiceIsLife on Saturday December 17, 2022 @10:51PM (#34034885)
Sic is not an abbreviation, placing a full stop/period inside the brackets after the word sic is erroneous.
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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by DonHopkins on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:29AM (#34036425)
Sic! (Is an exclamation mark ok?)
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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by OttoVonBizark on Sunday December 18, 2022 @12:45AM (#34035364)
or just be dyslexic or any other myriad of disorders like ADHD etc that may affect such minor grammatical rules yet not change or alter the likelihood that they could be a senior meta engineer?
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