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Nothing annoys this user more than when a teacher says that Wikipedia isn't reliable and that anybody can enter anything completely untrue that'll stay.
This user thinks English spelling reform is dumb, since we'll have to do it again anyway in a few hundred years, and besides, no writing system is telling me how to talk.
a lot alot
This user recognizes that linguistic change is a natural and desirable aspect of human language.
Although this user acknowledges the logical fallacy ad populum, they do not think that it applies to human language, and recognise that the majority determines grammatical "right" and "wrong".
This user considers amn't a perfectly logical alternative to aren’t in the first person singular.
couldn't've
This user believes that couldn't've would make a perfectly fine word.
ubiquitous
This user feels that if a person cannot concisely describe what they mean without using so-called big words, then they should not be identified as being truly intelligent.
This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever they see.
You and Me
This user thinks that if you believe it is 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 joins with Dickens, Melville, and other great writers[1] in rejecting the canard that which may not be used for restrictive relative clauses.
I like a lot of things, including, but not limited to, math, reading, history, Roman history, English history, linguistics, learning random etymologies of words, crossword puzzles, grammar, em dashes, sometimes semicolons, lists, Wikipedia, consistent formatting, sunrises, sunsets, running out of shampoo and conditioner at the same time, buying a new type of shampoo/conditioner that smells particularly good, applesauce, piano, classical music, chocolate chip cookies, using hyphens correctly, pretending to know how to use hyphens correctly, trying really hard to be pretentious in general, the feeling when I spend forever grasping at a word and finally hit upon the correct one, the word "whence," the word "heretofore," people who know that ending a sentence with a preposition is not grammatically incorrect and was an arbitrary rule created in an attempt to Latinize English or something like that, people who know that and don't care anyway and will still purposely construct sentences in such a way that the preposition with which they should have ended the sentence or clause is no longer found at the end, self-aggrandizement (but only when it's coming from me), the word "comprise" when used properly, the Oxford comma, calling the Oxford comma the Oxford comma and not the serial comma, run-on sentences, sentences with a fantastic amount of dependent clauses, parenthetical statements, the word "fantastic," and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
I dislike a lot of things, including, but not limited to, public restrooms, strawberry ice cream, and, at times, semicolons.