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There is no such thing as standard English. The link says only that the usage is informal, and HN comments are not formal writing.


If your comments were comprehensible to most HN readers, I wouldn't see the problem in using Hiberno-English, or any other colloquialisms.


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That's completely your opinion, though - there's nothing in the guidelines or FAQs that say that.

When on HN, I engage with things I find interesting, irregardless of how good their ritten. If we intimidate users with an expected level of ability in written English, we'll be excluding a lot of interesting comments.


English is as weird as JavaScript.


no, it's fine - you just need the right education https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/english-as-she-is-...




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