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That grammar tho! This guy seems like a native speaker, do CFOs actually use "its" instead of "it's" and "your" instead of "you're"? That said, all of this bu
by dmgbrn 11y ago
That grammar tho! This guy seems like a native speaker, do CFOs actually use "its" instead of "it's" and "your" instead of "you're"?
That said, all of this business cat stuff is way over my head. I have no idea whether it's interesting or not.
- pen2l 11y ago> That said, all of this business cat stuff is way over my head. I have no idea whether it's interesting or not. Same here, someone please annotate this Sony Wikileaks leak on Genius.com or something! I'd really like to understand it. Genius.com would be perfect for such a thing.
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- elevensies 11y agoI don't see a you're/your error in the original source, but its/it's is a pain to handle on a mobile keyboard. A lot of other apostrophes are handled by autocorrect but that particular one isn't. All caps I don't get, I find it impossible to read. I suspect that people who write all caps must be desensitized to it somehow.
- serve_yay 11y agoUgh, I knew somebody would be in the comments saying this. Who cares about the ideas on offer, let's evaluate it according to the rules we all learned in third grade.
- idlewords 11y agoand yet for some reason you punctuated and capitalized your comment correctly it rly makes you wonder
- icebraining 11y agoCan't we do both?
- dang 11y agoIn practice, no; comments of any kind lead to more of the same.
- anoother 11y agoI'm going to risk moving completely off-topic, because this is fascinating. Could you elaborate further (perhaps in a new topic or blog post)? I often visit threads and see the top-most comments being somewhat incredulous reactions to a (percieved) large number of sentiments to their contrary, so it would certainly be interesting to see at what point threads begin to evolve a critical mass in terms of which 'side' of a discussion a reply is likely to take.
- dang 11y agoI wasn't thinking of opinions for or against a position so much as the quality of the discussion. Shallowly provocative comments produce flamewars, nitpicking produces counter-nitpicking, and so on. Threads that begin with a substantive on-topic comment or two do best.
- legohead 11y agoYou just explained it -- bad grammar makes you look dumber than a third grader.
- whysonot 11y agoBusiness cat translation attempt: - Facebook makes money on desktop ads and mobile ads - They are making less money on desktop - They are making more money on mobile - They may be seeing trends before anybody else that mobile is where they will make money - So they might value engaging mobile apps more than competitors Thus, as Snapchat, you realize that FB is willing to pay a lot of $$, but also that what you have (the active users on mobile) is valuable and will continue to grow in value. It's interesting because it sheds light on what went into Snapchat's decision to reject the acquisition.
- kgrin 11y agoSounds like speech recognition, actually - I frequently get emails from a doctor who dictates most of his emails (on mobile), and they have a very similar cadence of grammatical mistakes... YMMV of course, but iOS/Android (and Dragon/et. al.) are pretty good at recognizing words, less so entire sentences - and remember, this is 5 years ago, so adjust accordingly (unsurprisingly, consumer-grade speech recognition has improved dramatically in the past half-decade).
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- fizzbar 11y agoIt was so painful to read that I had to give up, but from experience this isn't particularly rare; these dudes are typically so busy that they're hammering out missives like this as quickly as possible, no time to proof read or grammar check. Speed of response and communicating the core concepts is paramount.
- bisrael 11y agoand a "than" instead of "then".... ::facepalm::