User:CarLuva

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[edit] Personal Information

[edit] Name

Doug

[edit] Current Home

Eastern Texas, USA

[edit] Place of Origin

Maine, USA

[edit] Background

Undergraduate student in the fields of computer science and computer engineering.  Amateur musician with proficiency in piano and voice and significant interest in composition and conducting.

[edit] Areas of Interest

Articles on subjects related to computers, mathematics, engineering, Maine and New England, automobiles and automobilia, pianos, and classical music.  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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en This user is a native speaker of English.

de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.
Style Boxes
Image:Paul1.gif This user employs a more formal style of writing in articles than in talk pages.
“…” This user favours typographic quotation marks over typewriter style.
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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 and wears a schwa sticker as proof.
’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.
its/it’s It’s really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner.
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.
than / then This user understands the difference between using "than" and "then."
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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itive		 This user chooses never to split infinitives.

they This user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage.

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.
Latin Plurals: "Data is 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 full stop.
by The passive voice may be used by this user.
... in. Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put.
man-
kind		 Regarding gender, this user will use the vernacular, not what is "politically correct".
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This user is not British, but can speak with a British accent.
AIM-Able This user understands AIM talk perfectly well, and sometimes uses it, but not excessively.
C-2 This user is an intermediate C user.
cpp-2 This user is an intermediate C++ programmer.
java-3 This user is an advanced Java programmer.
bas This user can program in BASIC.
LV This user is a LabVIEW wireworker.
MAT This user is a MATLAB programmer and user.
.css This user can write Cascading Style Sheets.
<html> This user can write HTML.
{{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.

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