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dave4420 on March 11, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: A succinct email in just a subject line

Native English speaker here.

The number of times I’ve returned to a message I’ve left in a slack/forum thread to find typos, missing words etc is embarrassing.

I can’t imagine my emails would be any better.

stavros on March 11, 2025 [–]

It's actually spelled "embarrassing".

mercer on March 11, 2025 | [–]

If this was reddit I would of made a silly comment

AnonHP on March 11, 2025 | | [–]

Sorry, being pedantic about spelling here: it’s “would’ve”, not “would of”.

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