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For some reason that "An" irks me way more than it should.

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Trust me, I feel like that much more of a dweeb when I tell people out loud.

"I'm writing a book, Learn You...(whisper)an ruby(whisper)...For awesome Power"

Well I dare say why not keep going with the trend and have it something like Learn you the Ruby for great good! (At least that hurts a bit less :))

Oh man! Shucks. "The" would have been so much better :/

I need an INTERNET search and replace.

Just change it now, the internet will catch up. The sooner you do it, the better. Obviously only do it if you really want to change the title.

(FWIW I don't really like the "an" either, sorry!)

The unclosed parenthesis is irking me more, he opened it in paragraph 2 and never closes it!

The "Learn You A Haskell" link that points to a page for Learn You Some Erlang is what got me. (though I don't mean to make this a thread for criticizing the author)

Ack, both fixed.

Actually, that's a lie. They aren't errors. Bonus500 once spurned my love so I secretly redirect users to Learn You Some Erlang, instead of Learn You A Haskell. :(

In a related matter, I smiled when I saw this: https://github.com/krainboltgreene/learn-you-an-ruby-for-awe...

why is there an "An"?

It's kinda explained here: https://github.com/krainboltgreene/learn-you-an-ruby-for-awe...

That's a 404 now.

Yeah, the issue got closed. Github should really fix that.

The entire repo was deleted.

Oops, right. No I just renamed it: https://github.com/krainboltgreene/learn-you-the-ruby-for-aw...

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