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carapace on March 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Secure by Design

As an aside, s/nurture/neutralize/ eh? I'm seeing more and more malapropisms in online text. Has some common auto-correct thing gotten aggressive in guessing, badly, at misspelled words? (Auto-incorrect.)

natmaka on March 24, 2020 [–]

s/nurture/neutralize/, indeed.

No auto-correct culprit here, that's plain and simple self-incorrect (!): English isn't my native language.

carapace on March 24, 2020 | [–]

Ah, no prob. It's funny though because the two words are almost opposite in meaning. :-)

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