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efilifelast Tuesday at 10:38 PM4 repliesview on HN

Offtop, but sorry, I can't resist. "Inbetween" is not a word. I started seeing many people having trouble with prepositions lately, for some unknown reason.

> “Inbetween” is never written as one word. If you have seen it written in this way before, it is a simple typo or misspelling. You should not use it in this way because it is not grammatically correct as the noun phrase or the adjective form. https://grammarhow.com/in-between-in-between-or-inbetween/


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Antibabelicyesterday at 8:49 AM

"Offtop" is not a word. It's not in any English dictionary I could find and doesn't appear in any published literature.

Matthew 7:3 "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"

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mikestorrentyesterday at 6:15 AM

Surely you mean "I've started seeing..." rather than "I started seeing..."?

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crackiyesterday at 9:51 AM

Your entire post does not once mention the form you call correct.

If you intend for people to click the link, then you might just as well delete all the prose before it.

dist-epochlast Tuesday at 10:48 PM

If enough people use it, it will become correct. This is how language evolves. BTW, there is no "official English language specification".

And linguists think it would be a bad idea to have one:

https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/20...