Comment by bryanlarsen
3 days ago
Obvious spelling mistakes are usually ignored, but there are certain types of writing mistakes that really trigger the type of people that frequent HN.
For example, use "literally" for exaggeration rather than in the original meaning of the word and you'll likely trigger somebody.
I never seen this, unless "literally" really clashed with the intent of the comment (as in, it changed the meaning).
It's against the HN guidelines to focus on punctuation, spelling, etc, as long as the comment is understood.
And, in any case, it's now against the guidelines to write using an AI :)
Perhaps not for the word "literally", but you've never seen anybody make a pedantic correction about word usage?
To be clear, I've seen it in the wild, but not here where it's discouraged to pick on words instead of focusing on the substance of what's being said.
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