User:Flatlanders/Userboxes

These are the Userboxes of the Flatlanders.

You have been warned.

Important Boxes

plural

This user is friends with Bluejay Young.

LE-1

This user's been known to screw up the occasional sentence and make the occasional typo, but is otherwise pretty accurate with regards to English.

...

This user would like to know oodles more languages.

AS

This user has Asperger syndrome.

This user is more than happy to retain their "personality disorder(s)" and delights in telling their mental health professional to screw off.

This user is an undergraduate student majoring in Medical illustration.

This user is a member or supporter of MoveOn.org.

This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know.

ipa-2
ə

This user has an intermediate understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.

BS-0

This person does not understand Bullshit (or understands it with considerable difficulties or does not wish to communicate in Bullshit).

a²+b²=c²

This user is an intermediate mathematician.

This user enjoys writing.

This user is a bibliophile.

AA

This user has an Associate of Arts degree.

This user prefers cold weather.

This user enjoys comics.

Not-so-Important Boxes

they

This user considers singular they standard English usage.

to¦go

This user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives.

which
that

This user typically uses "which" and "that" interchangeably.

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!

your
you're

This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help.

“,;:’

This user is a punctuation stickler.

,

This user fixes comma-splices; they are annoying.

met?

This user prefers metric units, but, having grown up in the United States, cannot relate to them.

pas-3

This user is an advanced Pascal programmer.

C-1

This user is a beginning C programmer.

This user is near sighted.

This user has astigmatism.

This user wears corrective eyeglasses or contact lenses, without which they'd be as blind as a bat!

This user is interested in
ancient civilizations.

This user likes to design clothes.

This user enjoys sewing.

This user enjoys cooking.

This user is interested in ikebana.

This user enjoys electronics or is an electronics hobbyist.

Editing Wikipedia is something this user does as a hobby.

This user enjoys reading anything.

This user has a keen interest in physics.

A, B, and C

This user prefers the serial comma.

its

This user understands the difference between its (of it) and it's (it is or it has).

’s

Thi'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.

"…"

This user favours typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones.