MarkusRamikin comments on 2011 Survey Results - Less Wrong

94 Post author: Yvain 05 December 2011 10:49AM

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Comment author: MarkusRamikin 05 December 2011 10:29:43AM 3 points [-]

The other 72.3% of people who had to find Less Wrong the hard way.

Is it just me or is there something not quite right about this, as an English sentence.

Comment author: pedanterrific 05 December 2011 10:33:46AM 5 points [-]

Could be fixed by adding 'of'

Of the other 72.3% of people who had to find Less Wrong the hard way,

or removing 'who'

The other 72.3% of people had to find Less Wrong the hard way.

Comment author: MarkusRamikin 05 December 2011 10:38:52AM 1 point [-]

Right. For some reason the period instead of comma confused me much more than it should have.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 December 2011 06:48:15PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, which is ‘the hard way’ supposed to be? :-)