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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"Help's with readability"? You know what else helps? Not using contractions and introducing an unbalanced single quote.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If they'd'nt've done that, it'd've been better. Agreed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This feels racist against Appalachia. We naturally speak with contractions and are commonly referred to as "unbalanced".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Runs havoc on parsing, too. It's bad for both humans and robots. I say we ship it.