GloriaSidorum comments on Frequentist Magic vs. Bayesian Magic - Less Wrong

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Comment author: GloriaSidorum 10 March 2013 06:53:32PM *  5 points [-]

Orthography is not intuitive. To test my native speaker instinct, I'll pick a case that is. Imagine a user whose name was "Praise_Him". To me, it would be more natural to say "Praise_Him's post" than "Praise_His post"; the former might give me a second's pause, but the latter would make me reread the sentence. Thus, at least the way I use the language, a proper name which incorporates a pronoun is possessivized as a whole, and cousin_it's is correct. But "Its" and "It's" are homophonous, so it wouldn't matter to me much.

Comment author: nshepperd 10 March 2013 10:27:59PM *  2 points [-]

The underscore _ signifies italics in whatever-markup-system-this-is: _emph_ => emph. You can escape the underscore with a backslash before it: \_emph\_ => _emph_.

Comment author: GloriaSidorum 11 March 2013 02:32:32AM 1 point [-]

Fixed. Thanks.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 March 2013 01:05:53PM 0 points [-]

A similar issue is whether to say (n + 1)-st or (n + 1)-th.