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User:Optikos

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This user is Roman Catholic.
Subj This user prefers that the subjunctive mood be used. Were this user you, he would use it.
"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.


whomThis user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever they see.
theyThis user considers singular they standard English usage.
to¦goThis user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives.
…in.Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with.
which & that This user joins with Dickens, Melville, and other great writers[1] in rejecting the canard that which may not be used for restrictive relative clauses.
.  TheThis user puts two spaces after a period.
golden toad This user advocates lowercase common names in an encyclopedia.


’sThis user understands that apostrophe's apostrophes are for possession and contraction, not pluralization.
“…”This user favors curly quotation marks over straight style.
“...”!
US vs. UK
This user uses logical quotation marks. Internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a style issue!
;This user knows how to use a semicolon correctly.
This user knows the difference between a dash and a hyphen, and follows MOS:DASH.
,This user fixes comma-splices; they are annoying.
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This user supports the use of the
Oxford comma.
This user is a member of the Wikiproject: Indiana
ZAP!No user serviceable parts inside.
This user is a mad scientist.
This user is from Earth.
This user vigorously supports _____________.
This user prefers the metric system.
ipa-2
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This user has an intermediate understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
ocaml-1This user is a basic OCaml programmer.
Ksh-3This user is an advanced Korn shell programmer.
asm-3This user is an advanced assembly language programmer.
objc-3This user is an advanced Objective-C programmer.
C++-5This user is a professional C++ programmer.
Ada-3This user is an advanced Ada programmer.