Just to vouchsafe my street cred, I was born in 1950, and I was pushing bits in Fortran (and using E-mail on ARPANET) back in the mid-70s … I have forgotten how to use more programming languages than most programmers ever learn (like APL, Forth, Lisp, Smalltalk, and SNOBOL) … and yes, I am an "expert dialectician and grammarian" who is perhaps Too Much in love with the sound of their own voice. (Who says that purple prose is a Bad Thing? You maybe could learn a thing or two from Joseph Goebbels. ;-) — The Bipolar Anon-IP Gnome (talk) 07:37, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm here to repair it, not to research it. —Anon. WikiGnome
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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! |
its it's | It's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner. |
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. |
… | This user is addicted to ellipses and has been known to use them indiscriminately... though mostly as aposiopesis |
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