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by thomastjeffery 3256 days ago
> but W/E it's HN

Would you please simply type "whatever", instead of this "W/E" nonsense? Considering the amount of 8+ character adjectives you used, you clearly aren't trying to be less verbose.

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i am not native speaker so didn't even know what does it mean, since it's much less common than Without written this way
In the same spirit of improving grammar and readability - I think you meant to type 'number' of 8+ character adjectives.
You understood him perfectly well, what exactly is your criticism? If he agrees to comply to your arbitrary standards of style, only to say the exact same thing, will you agree to "please simply" refrain from being obnoxious for no reason?
> arbitrary standards of style

Spelling words correctly is not "arbitrary", it's conventional.

I did not understand perfectly well.

Understanding for me required a Google search. It's quite a nuisance for me to have to google an uncommon abbreviation for one of the most common words in my native language.

I am okay with abbreviations, but I had to think twice for this one.