[edit] Personal Information
- 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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Userboxes
Style Boxes
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This user employs a more formal style of writing in articles than in talk pages. |
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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. |
| ’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... |
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. |
Latin Plurals: "Data is are..." |
This user uses "data", "media", "memoranda", "criteria", and "agenda" as the plurals of "datum", "medium", "memorandum", "criterion", and "agendum". |
... in. |
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put. |
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Other Boxes
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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. |
| cpp-2 |
This user is an intermediate C++ programmer. |
| MAT |
This user is a MATLAB programmer and user. |
| {{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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