Sparrowhawk21
Re:How I invented my own writing system
on Sunday May 26, 2024 @06:42AM (#40481124)
Curious as to why the Indic long and short 'i' matras (diacritics) are used. The placement of short 'i' (to the left of its consonant) is hardly intuitive to English speakers.
Re:The Elements of Style [pdf]
on Monday August 28, 2023 @05:54AM (#37291822)
Exactly, beware prescriptivist hogwash.
Re:Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works
on Friday December 10, 2021 @06:48PM (#29516909)
Same thing as yoga nidra?
Re:Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and Notion in one
on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:41PM (#28409740)
They'd probably say "smartly written". But of course that wasn't the original phrase. My point was solely that it's not strange to us.
Re:Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and Notion in one
on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:52AM (#28402240)
"Write smartly" is normal to me as a speaker of British English. That's not to say the alternative shouldn't be preferred though.