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User:LizParker

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About me

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30YThis Wikipedian was born on 10 September 1994 and is 30 years, 3 months, and 8 days old.
This user supports the legalization of same-sex marriage.

Language

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AIM-1This uzer has an amateur understanding of the AIM talk. Brb
UKThis user uses British English.
User:Keys767/UBX/KillAmericanEnglish
AmE-0This user does not understand the American "English" "language" artificially created by Noah Webster in 1828 for no other reason than just to be "different" and bloody well doesn't want to.
This user thinks good grammar is sexy.
tyop
typo
This user is a member of the Wikipedia Typo Team.
;This user knows how to use a semicolon correctly.
əThis user is a Grammar Nazi.
Pickyness PickinessThis user changes the adjective ending "y" to "i" to form nouns with "-ness".
"…"?This user thinks "British punctuation is best for quotation marks". Do you?
???
?!?
!!!
This user terminates excessive use of exclamation points and question marks on sight. Grow up!
This user terminates unquoted ellipses on sight. This is not your blog. We end sentences properly.
,This user fixes comma-splices; they are annoying.
,
This user supports the use of the
Oxford comma.
’sThi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.
much & manyThis user understands the difference between much & many.
Latin Plurals: "Data is are..." This user uses "data", "media", "memoranda", "criteria", and "agenda" as the plurals of "datum", "medium", "memorandum", "criterion", and "agendum".
.  TheThis user believes sentence spacing is a style choice, not a law.
You & MeThis user thinks that if you believe it is always incorrect to use "you and me" as the object of a sentence, a little talk needs to be had by you and me...
which
that
This user typically uses "which" and "that" interchangeably.
less & fewerThis user understands the difference between less & fewer.
your
you're
This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help.
its & it'sThis user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.
whomThis user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever they see.
than
then
This user understands the difference between using "than" and "then."
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.
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!
snkThis user says either sneaked or snuck.
"There's" with a plural subjectThis user knows that "there's" with a plural subject is a pervasive grammatical error. There's There are too many people making this mistake. Don't be one of them.


to¦goThis user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives.
neutralityThis user could not care less about the use of gender-neutral language.
couldn't'veThis user believes that couldn't've would make a perfectly fine word.
ubiquitous ≠ widespreadThis user asserts that the more common word is often not the most precise.
ipa-2
ə
This user has an intermediate understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
ree-SPEL
ipa-0
This user begrudgingly deciphers the International Phonetic Alphabet, but only in order to create respelling pronunciations for normal people!
Majority ≠ right This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.