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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (12 children)

No, that title is orthographically wrong, besides using some very non-standard phrasing: the name of the startup, 11x, should have been between commas.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (10 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (9 children)

AI sales startup Never claims customers it doesn’t have for software that doesn’t work

See how that risks getting really confusing without commas or quotes?

They're called appositive commas and they surround "not essential" add-on information. The name of the startup here is not truly essential, it's added just for color (pretty sure nobody'd think, "oh, a typo" if they wrote "12x").

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

@NoSpotOfGround @self

[Guy who just learned what an appositive comma is]: "Hey, this could really benefit from some appositive commas"

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