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Nemo@midwest.social 2 months ago
Wow, I really want to correct the original authors’s grammar. Why use “instantiation” instead of “instance”?
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 2 months ago
machinin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My personal pet peeve is people using “societal” when “social” is just as appropriate.
techt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mine is sate vs satiate
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 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 2 months ago
That’s what [sic] is for. Well, not for correcting, but for dunking on.
Etterra@lemmy.world 2 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.”