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Re: by jjtheblunt on Friday June 19, 2026 @02:20PM (#48601489)
pedantic digression alert:

I think I need to go on a one man adventure to correct English, and French and German speakers could help, because titles like these catch my eye.

it should say

"What if Palantir's logo _were_ square?"

because it's subjunctive, as in the verb mood referring to an alternate possible reality, not factual reality.

I think it's worth mentioning this for the simple reason that English collapsed various grammatical hints at semantics (as did Swedish/Norwegian/Danish) in contrast to how things were more tediously layed out 1000 years ago, but French still has subjunctive as does English as does German, so use the opcodes because they're available, I propose. btw I think Poles/Czechs/etc see Russian similarly as having collapsed grammatical distinctions.

Re: by readthenotes1 on Friday June 19, 2026 @02:35PM (#48601672)
More valuable than the article
Re: by 9999px on Friday June 19, 2026 @02:23PM (#48601533)
Nah it's "was"