▲ 696 ▼ the hardest exam question (lemmy.ml) submitted 2 years ago by siriusmart@lemmy.ml to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml 137 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 2 years ago (2 children) Job security its not COBOL permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] RichieRich@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] itsnotits@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (1 child) It's* not permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works -8 points 2 years ago (2 children) If you are understood buy you're audience, you have spoken correctly. Correcting someone's grammer is pointless permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago I dunno what correcting someone's grammar has to do with paying off your readers. Sounds expensive. permalink fedilink source parent [–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* This isn’t speaking, but writing (or typing). Using ‘correct’ spelling & grammar helps ESL speakers read the language as well as those relying on text translation software. Some folks make typos & it’s fine to make mistakes but it’s also strange to act like it’s just as easy to understand. Apostrophes have a specific meaning & many folks rely on them for understanding. I’m learning a foreign language now & I can tell you it is a massive stumbling block when you run into what you think is a new word, but is ‘just’ a misspelling. My issue with this account is not its corrections, but if you want to be the correction bot, at least get the typography right too. ' is as ASCII holdover & it should be ’. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] itsnotits@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (1 child) It's* not permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works -8 points 2 years ago (2 children) If you are understood buy you're audience, you have spoken correctly. Correcting someone's grammer is pointless permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago I dunno what correcting someone's grammar has to do with paying off your readers. Sounds expensive. permalink fedilink source parent [–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* This isn’t speaking, but writing (or typing). Using ‘correct’ spelling & grammar helps ESL speakers read the language as well as those relying on text translation software. Some folks make typos & it’s fine to make mistakes but it’s also strange to act like it’s just as easy to understand. Apostrophes have a specific meaning & many folks rely on them for understanding. I’m learning a foreign language now & I can tell you it is a massive stumbling block when you run into what you think is a new word, but is ‘just’ a misspelling. My issue with this account is not its corrections, but if you want to be the correction bot, at least get the typography right too. ' is as ASCII holdover & it should be ’. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works -8 points 2 years ago (2 children) If you are understood buy you're audience, you have spoken correctly. Correcting someone's grammer is pointless permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago I dunno what correcting someone's grammar has to do with paying off your readers. Sounds expensive. permalink fedilink source parent [–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* This isn’t speaking, but writing (or typing). Using ‘correct’ spelling & grammar helps ESL speakers read the language as well as those relying on text translation software. Some folks make typos & it’s fine to make mistakes but it’s also strange to act like it’s just as easy to understand. Apostrophes have a specific meaning & many folks rely on them for understanding. I’m learning a foreign language now & I can tell you it is a massive stumbling block when you run into what you think is a new word, but is ‘just’ a misspelling. My issue with this account is not its corrections, but if you want to be the correction bot, at least get the typography right too. ' is as ASCII holdover & it should be ’. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago I dunno what correcting someone's grammar has to do with paying off your readers. Sounds expensive. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* This isn’t speaking, but writing (or typing). Using ‘correct’ spelling & grammar helps ESL speakers read the language as well as those relying on text translation software. Some folks make typos & it’s fine to make mistakes but it’s also strange to act like it’s just as easy to understand. Apostrophes have a specific meaning & many folks rely on them for understanding. I’m learning a foreign language now & I can tell you it is a massive stumbling block when you run into what you think is a new word, but is ‘just’ a misspelling. My issue with this account is not its corrections, but if you want to be the correction bot, at least get the typography right too. ' is as ASCII holdover & it should be ’. permalink fedilink source parent
