khafra comments on Not for the Sake of Pleasure Alone - Less Wrong

36 Post author: lukeprog 11 June 2011 11:21PM

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Comment author: khafra 13 June 2011 06:21:29PM 3 points [-]

XiXiDu's grammatical quirks are subtle. Not outright errors like these, just lapses from idiomatic English. He's also been comfortable questioning SIAI members publically under his own name.

Comment author: komponisto 13 June 2011 06:36:54PM *  2 points [-]

XiXiDu's grammatical quirks are subtle. Not outright errors like these, just lapses from idiomatic English.

In fact at least one of them -- "the SIAI" with the definite article -- has spread to the point of idiomaticity among significant portions of the LW community.