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Your compiler was broken; I didn't break it:

Verbs are not always required:

"Why?"

"Because."

"Dude!"

"Kinda?"

"Just no."

Contains too many nouns is not a thing. Your compiler should have errored on a mismatch between discrete and continuous quantities (much thinkings should either be many thoughts or much thinking) and then on a compound noun without hyphenation.

Creative punctuation is normal; really, we've only standardized on punctuation since the mid-1700s or so.

Capitalization is, again, stylistic: e.e. cummings, notably, was against it. So was Archie.

And you broke on == and !fits, but the context of reading Hacker News ought to equip your parser with adequate sidechains.



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