If you tried to reverse the order to "., the . would just fall off the end of the line because it had nothing to attach to
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Oh so it’s a bullshit anachronism people need to get the fuck over
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @Cybren
A lot of language in publishing still comes from old-school typesetting Like reason newspaper people misspell the word "lead" "lede" when talking about the first ("leading") paragraph -- or the abstraction of what *should* be in the first paragraph, "burying the lede"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Is this why they think ‘come’ is spelled with a k
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Replying to @Cybren @Nymphomachy
I don't actually know what that's referencing
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Replying to @Cybren @Nymphomachy
Oh yeah ha I'm sure there's something else "TC" stands for
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It also just helps to have (for modern-day) placeholders/commentary that get picked up as typos tbh
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Replying to @chrysopoetics @arthur_affect and
“hed tk” getting red squiggles to yell at you if your eyes are too tired to yell at yourself about it, due to the part where you don’t have a headline yet and are laying things out anyway
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Yeah proofreader words are deliberately not real words so they stand out and there's no chance of confusing them for actual words they want you to insert in the text
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Mobile defeats this by learning all my proofreader words to the point that between having known a guy with those initials and writing it corrects “to” itself to “tk”. We have outsmarted ourselves
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There's probably a browser extension you can download that will always highlight certain words when they show up in text
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