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Comment by vee-kay

2 days ago

I think you just did another non-sequitur.. What is a graf? Is it journalism slang for "paragraph"?

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vee-kay

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tptacek  2 days ago

Yeah, easier to type, easier to read, deliberately misspelled so it sticks out to copyeditors. I use it sometimes without thinking. An LLM would have caught that! :)

  • Animats  2 days ago

    > copyeditors

    Do those jobs still exist?

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