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[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

"Why does btrfs get a huge perf hit with background IO work?"

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've noticed a lot number of questions on reddit/etc. suddenly gets asked in that way ("why" in front of a statement). As an ESL I was confused for a while because I've been drilled in asking questions using auxiliary verbs.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I blame explanatory headlines. If you searched "why does [blank] happen?" you'd get articles like "why [blank] happens." ESL speakers (and under-educated native speakers) bungle the difference. (They're already trying to solve some technical crap. Their [blank] stopped working.) As this spreads, reddit and Stack Overflow start displacing tech-support blogs, and suddenly the headlines themselves are wrong.

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