Userboxes
Hacking
C++-0 | This user does not understand C++ (or does not want to program in C++). |
| This user writes valid XHTML. |
W3C | This user believes in compliance with W3C standards. |
| This user contributes with XFCE. |
Stuff
Grammer Grammar and Language
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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its & it's | This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you. |
they heorshe | This user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage. |
∀x, they...
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This user considers singular they with plural referent acceptable usage.
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he
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This user considers 'he' to be a gender-neutral pronoun.
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amn't | This user considers amn't a perfectly logical alternative to aren’t in the first person singular. |
y'all | This user thinks y'all serves a useful purpose as a second-person plural pronoun, and would like to see y'all use it more often. |
youm
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This user thinks youm should be used as a dative second-person pronoun by analogy to whom.
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Subj
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This user prefers that the subjunctive mood be used. Were this user you, he would use it.
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"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. |
…in. | Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with. |
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. |
whom | This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees. |
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 wants to stomp it out no matter what it takes. |
"…" | This user favours typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones. |
"…"!
US vs. UK | This user uses "logical quotation marks". Forcing internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a nationalistic style issue! |
; | This user is addicted to semicolons; he uses them frequently. |
sassenach
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This user likes tae sprinkle his speech with a mickle Scots leid.
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Meta
ubx-5 | This user uses entirely too many userboxes. |
-xen | This user believes that userbox should always be pluralised userboxen, and thinks that this is one of the most important and exciting issues of our time. |
| This user provides information using userboxes because he is bored. |
♋ | This user is the cancer that is killing Wikipedia. |
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