Grammar Debates

This cluster centers on users debating, correcting, and nitpicking grammatical errors, syntax issues, and sentence parsing in comments, titles, or articles shared on Hacker News.

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Sample Comments

lrobb Nov 23, 2012 View on HN

That's some unfortunate grammar.

indigodaddy Mar 3, 2019 View on HN

I see what you did there with the missing grammar

dasil003 Aug 1, 2023 View on HN

Interesting that it gives the (bad) subjective advice, but misses the clear cut grammatical error.

dwaltrip Nov 17, 2017 View on HN

It's grammatically correct, but conceptually incorrect (sorry, it's always fun to correct a correction :)

marvelous Jan 12, 2015 View on HN

At least get the grammar right, please!

samatman Mar 18, 2022 View on HN

Hey, thanks for parsing my sentence correctly. That's been an issue in some of the replies.

blazespin Jul 15, 2015 View on HN

... Isn't grammatically correct. Pedantic, I know.

strbean Mar 11, 2020 View on HN

That's a semantic error, not a grammar error!

_a_a_a_ May 8, 2023 View on HN

ditto grammatically and semantically correct in english too, just considered less clear & more prone to mistaken interpretation, in general.

jsprogrammer Jul 29, 2015 View on HN

Sorry, I didn't mean to start a grammar war. It was just something that stood out as a bit strange, the meaning was understood fine though.