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Oct 22, 2024
1:29:06pm

Hoosier Cougar All-American

I knew someone would flag it, however...

due to our Germanic roots, separable verbs (like hit with) are an exception.

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Hoosier Cougar

Bio page: Hoosier Cougar
Joined: Jul 9, 2001
Last login: Oct 22, 2024
Total posts: 24,128 (1,524 FO)

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Does anyone besides me struggle to contain their inner grammar Nazi?

1:08pm

You shouldn't have capitalized "know"

1:10pm

You also ended your final sentence with a preposition.

chochera

1:12pm

Grammar rules change over time. The preposition at the end of a sentence ban is

1:16pm

That is still something up with which I will not put.

Tricky

1:23pm

Here's what a grammar geek I am:

chochera

2:05pm

If "smart people" start doing it, it's good enough for me.

Plantagenet

1:23pm

That’s a “rule” because somebody thought English should act like Latin

Kaladin

4:59pm

I knew someone would flag it, however...

1:29pm

A certain percentage of people don't care and will never care enough to bother.

momowagon

1:14pm

You prefer C++ and Java over R or Python or definitely PHP. Right?

1:16pm

I would be ecstatic to be proficient in any one of those.

1:30pm

I thought with software support... anyways you meet CarolinaCoug? Read his posts

1:36pm

There are some regular posters on various forums

2:09pm

Agree, although I have had the experience where I started making mistakes (and

RoboKayne

1:21pm

It has become much worse since the advent of "spell check".

Plantagenet

1:24pm

RE: Does anyone besides me struggle to contain their inner grammar Nazi?

TheHop

1:26pm

Did you just call us homophones? If anything your the homophone…

ochobeeguy

1:45pm

Nope. I don't contain it.

byujacob

1:49pm

There's no shame in helping other people get better at communication and spelling.

John Doe

1:52pm

Benjamin Dreyer (Dreyer's English) would disapprove of your use of Nazi to refer

Pinetree

2:44pm

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