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I see this pretty frequently even in business communications with native speakers. Even using apostrophes for pluralizing is surprisingly common.


To be fair, I've caught autocorrect inserting apostrophes in my plurals more than once.


Apostrophes for plurals are sometimes the better choice, despite what style guides may say, for informal communication where acronyms are used and the lack of an ' may confuse people who think that the final lowercase s should be uppercase and part of the acronym.

As Orwell said, sometimes using some barbaric language construct is better than adhering to perfect style :-)


> Google opens themselves up to huge liability if they inadvertently do business with a minor, which is why they're so paranoid about the lock-out.

What liability is that? Genuinely asking because I've never heard that concern.


The "under-18-year-olds can't enter into contracts" laws are, broadly speaking, derived historically from child labor protection concerns, and tend to be state-level law.

There's very real risk that legitimizing a contract with a child opens Google up to expensive-to-litigate criminal liability.


Children technically can enter into contracts. But they're voidable contracts, so it's essentially no upside and only downside for those that would contract with them.


> we do understand what we’re doing and choose to do it anyways

Seems like you glossed right over the most important part of their comment.


Anecdotal, but I've never met or even heard of a Christian who believed in the virgin birth but thought it was the result of a natural process. Are there any examples of that you're aware of?


There was a Discovery channel documentary in the 2000s that tried to give "scientific" explanations for the miracles in Christ's life. Parthenogenesis was the theory they advanced instead of divine conception.


Sure, that sounds interesting and unsurprising. But was any of it believed by Christians?


I was going to chime in with the same thing. I do this as well, particularly while browsing on mobile. It's an extra click, but I can leave off at the very least the TLD and get better spell checking.


Yup. It's frustrating neoliberal nonsense to be so concerned with increasing diversity in roles that shouldn't even exist while ignoring the widespread impacts of sexism and racism.


And you believe that's due to innate differences and not anything about the environments in which these disparities arise?


The whole point is it’s not innate differences but it’s a bad solution. There are better ways of providing equal opportunity that don’t compromise the integrity of the system


You think no comments within 20 minutes of posting is enough to make that kind of claim over?


> at best you’d end up with a Ship of Theseus

As long as it doesn't cause an existential crisis for the shoe, that doesn't sound like a downside.


The "i" only exists in one of the addresses.


Exactly. "Would fname.i.lname be the same as fnamelname?" -> No.

"fname.i.lname@gmail.com" is the same address as "fnameilname@gmail.com"


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