tut comments on Fifty Shades of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy - Less Wrong

18 Post author: PhilGoetz 24 July 2014 12:17AM

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Comment author: tut 24 July 2014 03:52:51PM 3 points [-]

Right. It is not originally programmer jargon, but something teachers use when marking essays. It also isn't meant to be applied throughout a text, only on one instance of that word, which would be on the same line as the correction.

Comment author: ThisSpaceAvailable 26 July 2014 05:51:32AM 1 point [-]

Assuming s is short for substitute, it would make more sense for it to be s/new/original. It's kind of annoying how people say "substitute x for y" when they mean "replace x with y".