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'Grammar Vigilante' Secretly Corrects Bristol Street Signs (irishtimes.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: A self-confessed "grammar vigilante" has been secretly correcting bad punctuation on street signs and shop fronts in Bristol for more than a decade. The anonymous crusader carries out his work in the dead of night using the "Apostrophiser" -- a long-handled tool he created to reach the highest signs. The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, told the BBC that correcting rogue apostrophes is his speciality.
He's supposed to be from Bristol, after all.
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Golly, here on the internet, they're called "Grammar Nazis". Maybe people who correct bad grammar aren't so bad after all...
Well, look at it this way: sure he'd have stickers all over his screen, but even if he scrolled or reloaded the main page, he'd still end up with better edited posts than without the stickers.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Considering the amount of misspelled words and improper usage (their/there/they're or break/brake), it might be a not-so-subtle hint to get your act together.
If you don't think proper grammar is important, then you probably don't believe proper coding is important either.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The level of care given to writing a question sets the bar for the level of care given to answering the question.
If you can't be arsed to reach your pinky finger to the side to hit your Shift key, why should other people be arsed to stop what they're doing to help you?
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I have a friend who has the nickname 'Chip'. I keep suggesting to him that he should open a fish and chip shop and call it.....
Chip's
You want help specifically from pedantic nerds, but you can't be bothered to speak their language? Further, you're upset about the very personality traits that make them able to help you?
Just go back to Facebook and Twitter. You fit in there. You don't fit in here.
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Grammar, it's the difference between knowing your shit, and knowing you're shit.
A few years ago a local artist improved a confusing L.A. freeway sign, making an interstate number shield in the process:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...
https://www.good.is/articles/t...
http://gizmodo.com/how-one-fed...
One down, 9,999 to go...
Table-ized A.I.
arsed too reply with speling and grammer correction?
Does anybody think those replies are 'to help'? Pitiful, self congratulatory, mental fapping. The middle schooler, desperate to show how smart (s)he is. Big words, half understood, that's the grammarian.
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Not less but fewer. ...ten or fewer items...
Items are countable.
The Unicoder! We totally need a unicoder!
I suppose that's preferable to the Ebcdicker.
Bwahahaha!
Because I have arthritis in my hands I typo stuff sometimes. I could carefully proof read my internet posts, but it's fucking Slashdot. Incorrect case isn't going to stop people understanding the message.
And if you are that bothered by it... Okay, I'll go without your reply, my life is too short to care about trivial mistakes.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
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Oh, cripes. Are you suggesting that less & fewer are *sometimes* interchangeable? Wonderful. Just what we need is another ambiguity in this language.
I've heard the argument that what you have in your shopping basket ("groceries") is a fluid quantity because you don't talk about having a 'grocery'. That sort of makes sense. I think it's like quantum mechanics though. As soon as you take the groceries out of the basket and put them on the conveyor, they cease being fluid and become discrete "items".
I would refuse to shop in a place that has "10 items or less" on a sign. :-)
There's everything "wrong with it" when you've spent decades using "fewer" for that which is discrete and "less" only for that which is fluid or continuous.
"10 items or less" just sounds wrong.
(Hangs head in shame)
"A count is also a measure."
Only if accompanied by a unit
2.3 is less than 2.6, but
2 is fewer than 3
No, 2 are fewer than 3 . //yes dammit I'm being funny and serious, and yes I'm well aware of the difference between numbers and collective nouns, and the difference between British English and American English when it comes to collective nouns.
https://app.box.com/WitthoftResume Code: https://github.com/cellocgw
"Back in my day, we called them grammar Nazis. It might not be allowed these days though."
The term we use today is alt-grammarians.
"A count is also a measure."
Only if accompanied by a unit
Occasionally, a count is a vampire.
And number is how you feel after he sucks the blood out of your body.
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