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markx2 • today at 4:13 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Not related to a README, but very much related to how programmers / creators speak (by which I mean type).

My way in to WordPress support back in 2004 was decoding answers to others from Photomatt and others.

A user would ask a question about WordPress and, for example, Photomatt would answer. His answer was always correct. Technically correct. But it didn't land for the question asker. They would reply with .. 'What?'

I would then replay with "What Matt has said is right, and this is what he means, this is the answer"

I gave them the information they needed in words they could understand.

It was not Matt's fault, it was not the user's fault.

It was translating in a way.