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Time for some close reading. It has long been customary to use an apostrophe to indicate omission of a letter, as in “don’t” or “ma’am” A single apostrophe is sometimes used to stand for multiple omitted letters, as in ‘em for them. /1
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Irrelevant perhaps. I don’t see how it is disingenuous. It’s just nerding out over language with a half-hearted dig at Trump at the end. Which I think misanalyzes it linguistically too. The dd middle suggests an attempt at an Italian mob-boss inflection of the sort Taleb affects.
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