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This community has been very cool about spelling, grammar, and typos (hexbear.net)

submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I still see blue checks in Twitter that need to reply with "*you're" kinda bullshit. I do reread some of my posts and I see them littered with mobile edits or just bullshit language that only made sense to my brain at 2am. Thanks everybody for being chill about language. I still (wrongly) imagine that I'm very good with writing, and seeing my own writing some time after it's been published is a nice kick of humility.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago

On another forum years ago with a news and debate subforum, I was arguing with chuds about I forget what. I do remember, though, using the term "proto-feminism" when describing Mary Wollstonecraft and arguments she was making before the First Wave Suffragettes. Some chud started arguing about Mary Shelly and Frankenstein weren't "pro-feminist". Not only getting the wrong Mary, but he also confused himself with an argument nobody made and went on some tirade about it.

I came back a few hours after I posted and said "Your rage essay is tl;dr and you worked yourself up over something because you have poor reading comprehension." I think he even had Wikipedia links, which was even more funny because they were to the wrong things.