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It's "without further adieu", you clown!

Try "without further ado," you clown!

From the Grammarist: Data is or data are? | The singular vs plural debate

2d biggest city in Australia and the finance and baking capitol

WTF is a baking capitol mate? And Sydney is pretty much Australia's financial capital, though maybe Melbourne has better scones ...

I'll let a grammarist point out how your pedantry is "a misunderstanding of how English develops".

Short form: you are the one who is wrong.

Actually, the traditional (and now very out-of-date) wisdom is that "speeded" should only be used with "up". So your complaint would be silly even if we did still subscribe to thy 19th century grammatical peeves. Forsooth!

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Grammar nazis REPRESENT!

HEIL WEBSTER!

#SayNoToJive

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

If we allow cosmologists to be unlicensed, the entire universe could collapse into a black hole. There is some evidence that this is already happening. That is far worse than a bad haircut.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

anyone who signed onto the Patriot act should be tried, then hung, for treason.

You're grammer leafs a lot too be desired.

fish refers to one specie and fishes refer to many species

So, Mr. Grammar Nazi, the word "fish" refers to a single piece of money in the form of coin?

It helps if you don't come across like a fucking idiot when you're trying to correct other people.

AFK, bros, got a handful of fish in my pocket that I need to go feed into the meter, and maybe the soda machine.

Look at you jiggling in your overstressed office chair because you thought you found an error in someone else's grammar, askance.

Grow up, asshole.

The plural of fish is usually fish, but fishes has a few uses. In biology, for instance, fishes is used to refer to multiple species of fish. For example, if you say you saw four fish when scuba diving, that means you saw four individual fish, but if you say you saw four fishes, we might infer that you saw an undetermined number of fish of four different species.

http://grammarist.com/usage/fish-fishes/

Since the TFA refers to "50 species of fish" in the second sentence, the correct word is "fishes."

PSA: Its vs it's

you do NOT "work out" (note: it's two words).

It's "workout," not "work out."

http://grammarist.com/usage/workout-work-out/

You're going to have to accept my Slashdot pics. The current pic is before I started losing one pound per week.

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"Maths" is an error based on misunderstanding that fact.

Nonsense, maths is a shortening of mathematics. It's perfectly valid to pick some letters from the start and the end when shortening a word. Saying it's based on pluralizing math is just completely bogus etymology.

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Cite the OED and the point shall be conceded.

The dictionary doesn't cover grammar, but it is clearly in there as a word:
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/speeded

"verb (used with object), sped or speeded, speeding."

Then there's the usage:
http://grammarist.com/usage/sped-speeded/

Not to mention you seem to be under the mistaken belief that a words existence follows the dictionary, instead of the other way around.
Again, if you don't understand a topic...

http://grammarist.com/usage/sp... Sorry but I must revoke your Grammar Nazi License.

We can probably blame android speel chequer, but Justin case: http://grammarist.com/usage/to...

Eye should no. I are an English majer.

http://grammarist.com/usage/cue-queue/

"Pleaded" is quite fine

Wrong, and you know it.

http://grammarist.com/usage/cu...

You can also use them as controllable noise cancelling [sic] wireless headphones for your music or calls or just for quiet.

"Cancelling" is a perfectly acceptable spelling: http://grammarist.com/spelling...

I applaud BeauHD's efforts though - it's good to see an editor here paying attention to spelling and grammar.

Irony meter just exploded.

Surely you mean "metre"?

Surely he does not [boldface added]:

For the unit of measurement equaling approximately 1.094 yards, meter is the American spelling, and metre is preferred everywhere else. The same distinction applies to the terms used in poetry and music—meter in American English, and metre everywhere else. Here’s the tricky part: For any type of device (i.e., an actual machine or gadget) designed to measure time, distance, speed, or intensity or to regulate current, meter is the preferred spelling everywhere.

Look, data is easily gleamed & turned into metrics.

Read this, please.

http://grammarist.com/usage/af...

I apologize. Sometimes I construct comments which require an IQ above 80 to understand...

Perhaps you could whet our appetite with one.

Only a fool thinks they aren't already being tracked as for all intensive purposes bitcoin is NOT anonymous.

So, it's anonymous for non-intensive purposes? It's a doggy-dog world out there.

GFY

It's OK. They are in the UK and so their team using maths to solve the red tapes problem will be a non-issue..

make do

As I told Raven64, it's more complex than that for 'earth.' There are three uses of the word, two of which are uncapitalized. One of those does refer to the medium in a manner analogous to the 'sky' and 'world' usages I described, in a pre-Heliocentric way. When you say "the bird plummeted to the earth," you're referring to the ground as a whole, not the third planet of the Sol system, and not mere soil. Same for "every man, woman, and child on this earth."

Not so fast. When you stick "the" in front of "Earth" it becomes a common noun and loses its capitalization. I believe this is for the same reason that 'world' and 'sky' aren't capitalized; the usage descends from pre-Galileo, non-Heliocentric practices. It's a medium, in addition to referring to soil and a planet.

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Perhaps you should keep saying it, since it seems the grammarians disagree with you.

Oh, and keep tilting at those windmills, maybe some day you will win a battle...lol

You.

Some teachers are flaunting the new rules and trying to actually educate their kids,

Flaunt vs. flout

who believes they are not effected by her alternating magnetic resonance?

[raises hand]

I'd certainly grant that my life is affected by the Moon's gravitational effects, but its magnetic effects are pretty tiny, and I can't see how one would consider them "resonance".

As for being effected -- no, I'm pretty sure I was effected by much more down-to-earth influences. Okay, maybe strong tides were a necessary condition for life to arise on Earth, so perhaps we were "effected" by the Moon's gravity, too. But not magnetism.

Obviously lots of materials are both but they are different meanings.

There is no difference in meaning between flammable and inflammable. Both describe things that are capable of burning or easy to ignite, but in all modern varieties of English, flammable is preferred.

I could find plenty more sources. Every single reference I found searching for "flammable vs inflammable" says they are exactly the same. In fact, flammable is just new shortened version of inflammable.

Considering there are billion dollar high rises right next to slums I could care less.

So you care a LOT then? It is 'couldn't care less', dipshit.

If you are unfamiliar with the concept of the widely accepted idiom, it is likely that you are in fact the dipshit here.

http://grammarist.com/usage/an... - see it's a thing, in electronics.

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If you're smart enough to know a word like paean, surely you're smart enough to spell it correctly. It only takes a moments to check the spelling of a difficult word. You don't want to look silly do you?

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We we learnt us some good English too while we were at it?

Yeah, we kinda did. http://grammarist.com/spelling... Regards, Alex.

Feel free to argue with the Oxford Dictionary about what's proper English and what's not. Moreover, this use of 'gift' as a verb, while not always in vogue, has historic roots from at least the 17th century .

In your sig.... "intensive" should be "intents and" http://grammarist.com/eggcorns...

You buy an iPhone, you get your just desserts.

I would say you jailbreak your iphone using software from unidentified hackers, then install software from unknown parties that can access root processes, you get your just deserts.

The grammar of that sig deserves a visit from Ser Ilyn Payne.

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Next question?
Yeah - why are you digging yourself into an even deeper hole?

Please read this: http://grammarist.com/usage/af...

Cool...

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exceptions and borrowed syntax which can't be explained to non-native speakers

I am outside the US. I work for a company with more foriegn-born people than locals. The exclusive language in the workplace is English. There are a few that consider themselves learners. Sadly, some of the worst at English claim expertise. But I'm helping one of the guys that wants to learn better English. He's never come up with a question I couldn't easily answer. I've looked up "official" answers to help him, but I've never had to consult one to answer a question. The syntax is easily explained to non-native speakers, even if it's inconsistent and confusing. My favorite is http://grammarist.com/usage/hi... the rule is clear, consistent, and optional. Though, my answer if he were to ask for the proper plural of "hippopotamus" would be "hippos".

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