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Nitpick: a tenet is a foundational principle or belief; a tenant is someone who pays rent. (Which I suppose could be used as a metaphor for a dividend-paying stock, but.)


That’s not a nitpick. That’s you needlessly correcting something you understood perfectly well to cheaply feel superior while failing to engage in the actual discussion.

Sorry for commenting from my phone and not always proofreading my comments. Why assume I don’t speak English properly? That’s so insulting. Please never do that again. Thank you.


I thought I was going out of my way to not be insulting. It has absolutely nothing to do with feeling superior. It has everything to do with the fact that I frequently encounter people who surprisingly don't seem to know things like this, and I wish for them to learn so they can avoid the mistake in the future.

I did not engage in the discussion because I had nothing further to contribute to it. I recognized that, and contributed what I could entirely orthogonal to that.




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