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Usage of Language
| "There's" with a plural subject | This user knows that "there's" with a plural subject is a pervasive grammatical error. There's There are too many people making this mistake. Don't be one of them. |
to
too
two | This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two. |
| if & whether | This user knows how to use "if" and "whether" correctly. |
than
then | This user understands the difference between using "than" and "then." |
their
there
they're | This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling! |
your
you're | This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help. |
| its | This user understands the difference between its (of it) and it's (it is or it has). |
| whom | This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever they see. |
| You and Me | This user thinks that if you believe it is incorrect to use "you and me" as the object of a sentence, a little talk needs to be had by you and me... |
Latin Plurals: "Data is are..."
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This user uses "data", "media", "memoranda", "criteria", and "agenda" as the plurals of "datum", "medium", "memorandum", "criterion", and "agendum".
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ain't nobody | This user hates seeing double negatives clutter up the English language. He/she wants to stomp it out no matter what it takes. |
| -ly
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This user mourns the apparent death of the adverb, a loss that this user feels most serious.
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A, B, and
A and B | This user uses the serial comma unless its inclusion is confusing. |
| ’s | Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. |
| "..!" | This user believes that punctuation should always come on the inside of quotation marks. |
| GN | This user is a Grammar Ninja and says "WAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" as proof. |
| AIM-Able | This user understands AIM talk perfectly well, but does not seriously use it. Ever. |
| H4X0R | This user has moderate understanding of Leet (H4X0R), but does not use it. |
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Misc
| Majority ≠ right
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This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.
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