Comment 2WME Maybe I'm a pedant

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Scientists discover the first protein that can edit other proteins

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Maybe I'm a pedant (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org on 2015-01-02 15:23 (#2WME)

I think that the use of can is a bit wrong here, I'd put it as "is used to edit", can seems to imply that it has a choice, or prefers to edit other proteins instead of building up muscles, or causing holes to form in your cerebral tissues.

Yeah, no maybe about it.

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2015-01-02 15:23
I think that the use of can is a bit wrong here, I'd put it as "is used to edit", can seems to imply that it has a choice, or prefers to edit other proteins instead of building up muscles, or causing holes to form in your cerebral tissues.

Yeah, no maybe about it.

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