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48:15 Personally, as a non-native speaker (In Morocco, normally, we learn Arabic first, then French, then in the 9th grade, we choose between English or Spanish), I didn’t have to have strict language teachers for me to respect grammer rules; it just feels great to do things right. Back in high school, my English teacher literally held my exam paper in the air like he was Rafiki, and the paper was Simba, and he said, “Look, guys! There’s not a single mistake in Ahmed’s essay!” When I got my paper back, I noticed there was a red dot on an “i” that had already been dotted by yours truly, and I was like, “Oh, so you had to use the red pen anyway, just so you wouldn’t feel like you weren’t doing your job, huh?” Then he chuckled, and was like, “Yeah.” He knew I was just teasing, since he wasn’t really your run-of-the-mill insecure self-loathing teacher. He once taught as a sub in Georgia, USA, and he told us how he learned a lot from that experience. Mr. Feddal is hands down one of the greatest teachers I’ve ever known. Anyway, perfectionism isn’t really as bad as some people make it out to be. As a gamer, just like how I enjoy hitting that “Try again” or “Restart” button until I finish all the side quests, I follow the same approach with the languages I know, and that includes programming languages. I’m kind of glad Linus, and I have “Grammar Nazism” in common. Cheers!