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throwawaygram on Sept 3, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Foreve...

Grammar nit pick, "a" if the first letter of the following word starts with a consonant sound else "an". A ball. An echo.

rendall on Sept 3, 2022 | [–]

Give typos a pass, and if it can be explained as a typo, then it is a typo. That includes errant apostrophe's.

noncoml on Sept 3, 2022 | [–]

I started writing “an SDE”, then replaced the SDE with software engineering, but didn’t bother proof reading..

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