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		Smaug123 on Sept 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Science’s pirate queen Off-topic nit: the word "painstaking" is a concatenation of "pains-taking", i.e. "taking pains". It's not usually given a dash, but if you put one in, it belongs after the "s".

_emacsomancer_ on Sept 28, 2019 [–]

On-topic: And that's just the sort of copy-editing that would end up being done by (unpaid) reviewers and not the paid copy-editors.

(Thank you, by the way.)

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