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I do know I can just click on that person's profile once every week/day, but I think automated "inbox" like feature would be better

I'm talking about Inbox feature provided by the stackexchange sites, is that correct? I felt that I should add quotes, because I'm not referring to inbox, but something that is named inbox.

apaderno
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IAdapter
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I think I would use:

I do know I can just click on that person's profile once every week or day, but I think an automated inbox-like feature would be better.

Changes:

  • Avoid the slash
  • Use the indefinite article 'an'
  • Use the hyphen instead of quotes
Jonathan Leffler
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  • I understand, but why "Avoid the slash" ? I think a slash is something "very" english. – IAdapter Jan 17 '11 at 07:17
  • Wouldn't it be better to fix the first two mistakes by editing his answer and only mention the one as an answer, because that's really what his question is? – Borror0 Jan 17 '11 at 07:18
  • Because I'm an old fuddy-duddy? Probably. The slash is meant to mean 'or', and the word looks better. The English style books that I learned from discouraged the slash - so I'm reiterating what I learned a long time ago. In engineering circles, 'week/day' would be 'weeks per day', and the answer had better be 1/7 (unless you're working in business weeks, in which case, I suppose it is 1/5). – Jonathan Leffler Jan 17 '11 at 07:19
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    @Borror0: if I had edit privileges, perhaps. I don't have them (yet). I suspect that the OP is speaking English as a second language; I hope that my explanations will help him or her improve their 'Use of English' - as well as provide an answer to the direct or main question. – Jonathan Leffler Jan 17 '11 at 07:21
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    +1 for those edit privileges and for being an "old fuddy-duddy" (wait... that didn't come out right when I write it) ;) – VonC Jan 17 '11 at 07:28
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    It should be noted that the hyphen doesn't replace the quotes, it's needed with the quotes too. At least in the style guide in my brain (never read one, yet). – Jürgen A. Erhard Jan 17 '11 at 08:20