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Nemo@midwest.social 10 months ago
Wow, I really want to correct the original authors’s grammar. Why use “instantiation” instead of “instance”?
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 10 months ago
machinin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My personal pet peeve is people using “societal” when “social” is just as appropriate.
techt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Mine is sate vs satiate
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I can see the distinction mattering. “Instantiation” implies an act. Something did the instantiating. “Instance” doesn’t have the same implication of an agent.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 10 months ago
That’s what [sic] is for. Well, not for correcting, but for dunking on.
Etterra@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve never heard it put that way, and you’re not wrong. I’m pretty sure it was intended to mean “that’s not our typo, we’re just quoting the idiot.”