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You might possibly be missing the intended spirit of this site. We want curious conversation here. Feeling pissed off at someone who comes across as a snob is understandable, but it isn't curious conversation to rush to the comment thread to put them down. Curious conversation means finding unexpectedly interesting things and responding to them by extending the sequence.

I don't like snobs or seeming-snobs any more than you do, and I agree with you about the speech of "ordinary people", but your comment was still against HN's rules and intended spirit.