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ryandraketoday at 4:59 PM5 repliesview on HN

[2020] and wow, what a title. It looks like someone was trying to decide between "How Wake-On-LAN works" and "How does Wake-On-LAN work" and "How do Wake-On-LANs work" and just picked a random combination of words from those choices.


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Aurornistoday at 5:06 PM

English is not the author's primary language.

I think they did a great job for writing in a secondary language.

ErroneousBoshtoday at 8:10 PM

He's Norwegian and studied in Wales.

How good are you at blogging in your third language?

Ich? Nicht so gut, aber Ich kann veillicht ein bisschen posten auf Deutsch.

Agus co dhiù, bha Beurla an dàrnan cànan agamsa.

So if my posts in English (proper English, not North American "Simplified English") are a bit squint at times, blame that.

yyhhsj0521today at 5:41 PM

They did a much better job than a JavaScript developer writing Java.

Sarkietoday at 7:56 PM

Don't be Reddit

wat10000today at 5:48 PM

This sort of thing is quite common for non-native speakers. The fact that you can say "how does X work" and "how X works" but not "how does X works" is not particularly obvious, and easy to mix up.