• remon@ani.social
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    24 hours ago

    Well, yeah. School is supposed to teach you how to do things properly. But people tend to forget a lot of that after leaving school and just do what they want.

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      23 hours ago

      And they are of course at liberty to do so, just as people who didn’t forget their lessons are equally free to call them out for it. If I insist on using the spelling ‘leburthy’, I don’t get to complain if somebody else makes me feel like an uneducated fool in short order.

      Which - given that this is the Internet - will undoubtedly happen very swiftly indeed.

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        21 hours ago

        You used single quotes when double quotes was the correct usage. You also put your comma outside of the quotation mark instead of inside.