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Filligreetoday at 4:04 PM1 replyview on HN

People do get that wrong. But the corrected version is “you were supposed to die as a baby”, and…

That doesn’t sound any better.


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jjuliustoday at 4:22 PM

>That doesn't sound any better.

It doesn't, because "it was so common to", as OP stated, is not the same thing as "you were supposed to". There's no reason it should be corrected, it's accurate.