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Abagond
Personal blog · abagond.wordpress.comculturepoliticshistory
Abagond is a personal blog at abagond.wordpress.com about culture, politics and history. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for essays on language, race and culture, such as why the Japanese draw themselves as white and a post on Ebonics. One commenter recommends the blog as a daily writer whose posts they enjoyed.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
500 words a day on whatever I want
What Hacker News says?
People always be conjugating "be" incorrectly. It's actually hallmark of a very common English dialect, which people speak and understand all the time without issue: https://abagond.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/ebonics-time-and-te...
Comment linking /2008/09/09/ebonics-time-and-tense/
on “Is Grammarly a keylogger? What can you do about it?”Submitted Colonel Sanders as a story · 5 points
HN discussionOriginally posted as http://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/why-do-the-japanese-...
Comment linking /2010/06/16/why-do-the-japanese-draw-themselves-as-white/
on “Why do the Japanese draw themselves as white?”I recommend the author's blog, http://abagond.wordpress.com/ Programmer, West Indian, NYC area, writes 500 words a day on whatever he likes. Also a father. Studied Classical Greek and Comp Sci in college: People told me studying ancient Greek was a waste of time, but I learned far more about life and the world from the Greeks than from anything in computers. I read a few posts and enjoyed them all.
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on “Why do the Japanese draw themselves as white?”Thanks for the info. Still, it's hard to believe that Japanese phones would put Caucasian people all over their emoji. Related: "Why Do the Japanese Draw Themselves as White?" https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/why-do-the-japanese...
Comment linking /2010/06/16/why-do-the-japanese-draw-themselves-as-white/
on “Firefox 39.0 released”