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One Man's Quest To Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake
An anonymous reader writes with this Fascinating profile of one particular Wikipedia editor Giraffedata (a 51-year-old software engineer named Bryan Henderson), who has spent the last seven years correcting only the incorrect use of "comprised of" on Wikipedia. Using a code to crawl for uses of "comprised of" throughout all of Wiki's articles, he'll then go in and manually correct them (for example, using "consists of" or "composed of") and has made over 47,000 edits to date.
While some people may find his actions cromulent, I personally think his work embiggens us all.
"Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment."
what happens when oxford announces that "comprised of" now also means "made up of" ?
They already have.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Because people like to enforce rules. It makes them feel good. All humans have this to a degree. :-)
The rules for grammar are very well defined and no actual harm is caused by being a grammar Nazi.
I'ts a win win, no victims, someone gets to feel superior, someone gets to be upset, and human drives are fulfilled for all.
It's a wonderful system!
Basically people like to shout about it because no one is actually harmed by it and as such no one is really going to get upset about it.
Just a kind of pretend upset.
You go after those people with real vices that are harmful! Well, your calling someones identity very much into question and you'll face a real response.
It's all about the drama!