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  • True, "Karma" doesn't mean much unless you can refine "Karma" statistics, e.g. upvote/ downvote ratio, "karma" trend against time graphs, last 30 days net "Karma", filter "Karma" statistics specific to community/instance.

    Still, you can't stop someone from selling a 5 million "Karma Points" account to trolls, so I disagree with showing "Karma" like Reddit.

  • [The Verge] You don’t have to freak out about aspartame in your diet soda
  • Same as microwave oven, cell phones and laptops. Human beings freak out about stuff that they don’t understand, it was then thunder that human freak out about, it is now technology that human freak out about.

  • YSK it's either "should have" or "should've". "Should of" is incorrect
  • Isn't "have" either an auxiliary verb or verb and "of" a preposition?

    Are these acceptable? If yes, why? If not, why not?

    • I of heard that story before.

    • Diane of already gone.

    • John ofn't phoned, of he?

    • I ofn't visited London before.

    • Of you seen Roz?

    • Of she been invited?

    • They still ofn't of any news when I spoke to them yesterday.

    I don't know man, Oxford Dictionary (click Grammar Point to expand) says that https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/have_2

    A common mistake is to write ‘could of’ instead of could have or could've

    I could of told you that.

    I could've told you that.

    The reason for the mistake is that the pronunciation of ’ve is the same as that of of when it is not stressed. This is a common error but it is definitely considered wrong in standard English.

  • YSK it's either "should have" or "should've". "Should of" is incorrect
  • I know right, I know people make careless grammatical mistakes all the time, including me, which is completely fine but people outright thought that "should of" is correct and use it all the time starts to get annoying

  • YSK it's either "should have" or "should've". "Should of" is incorrect

    Why YSK?

    The first person who typed "should of" probably heard of it in real life that was meant to be "should've", they typed "should of" online and readers thought that it's grammatically correct to say "should of" which is in fact wrong and it became widespread throughout the years on Reddit.

    I hope something could start to change.

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