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Journal by Chacham on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @02:27PM

I posted a joke on reddit, using "noone" in the title, and got a lot of hate in the comments, with every one of my replies modded down. I find that funnier than the joke. :)

Personally, i think "noone" has a different connotation than "no one". Well, not actually, but it is how it feels to me. I use the two word form when one is a number: no one person could eat all that. But the one word form sounds like nobody. Why not use nobody? I'm not even sure; i just think noone sounds better.

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Not one person (Score:2)

by thechemic ( 1329333 ) writes:

Cares.
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  by Chacham ( 981 ) writes:
  
  Bears
peter noone (Score:2)

by slothman32 ( 629113 ) * writes:

I'm not making fun of what you do, I use noone too.
Every time I see it though I think of Peter Noone.
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  by Chacham ( 981 ) writes:
  
  I read it as a compound word naturally. It actually takes me longer to see it as noon.

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