User:CarLuva
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Personal Information
[edit ]Name
[edit ]- Doug Glidden
Current Home
[edit ]- Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
Place of Origin
[edit ]Background
[edit ]- Software engineer with two bachelor's degrees in the fields of computer science and computer engineering from LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas. Amateur musician with proficiency in piano and voice and significant interest in composition and conducting.
Areas of Interest
[edit ]- Articles on subjects related to computers, mathematics, engineering, Maine and New England, automobiles and automobilia, pianos, classical music, and my alma mater, LeTourneau University. As the son of an English teacher and an avid amateur grammarian, I often browse around for ways I can make grammatical and stylistic improvements to existing articles on any subject (typically using the "Random article" link).
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"..." This user favors curly quotation marks over straight style.
Grammar and Usage Boxes
Majority ≠ right
This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.
ə This user is a Grammar Nazi .
’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.
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!
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.
you're This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help.
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...
",;:’ This user is a punctuation stickler.
, This user fixes comma-splices ; they are annoying.
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whom This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees.
A, B, and C This user prefers the
serial comma .
serial comma .
Latin Plurals: "Data (削除) is (削除ここまで) are..."
This user uses "data", "media", "memoranda", "criteria", and "agenda" as the plurals of "datum", "medium", "memorandum", "criterion", and "agendum".
.The This user puts two spaces after a period.
by The passive voice may be used by this user.
...(削除) in (削除ここまで). Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put.
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cpp-2 This user is an intermediate C++ programmer.
LV This user is a LabVIEW wireworker .
{{Wiki}} This user can write in the MediaWiki language.
USage decline This user uses American English , but is appalled at its rapid and continuing deterioration.