Do you think we should have a 'National Bad Grammar Day'?

So stay off the internet.

Hi, Stu Spelling Bee!! Yay!
:)

Why should the internet be capitalized?

According to the Associated Press style manual, a required tool for newspaper writers and editors.

Thank you.

Except the Associated Press manual is WRONG. The noun 'internet' is not a proper noun. The noun 'internet' was around a long time before electronic communication was invented (an internet of roads, an internet of veins, etc.). In addition to the most well known internet (the one I'm using now), any company or entity can have their own internal internet, connected only to their own servers and  terminals.

  Bravo, bravissimo! I agree with you fully, I do not capitalize that word and I think it’s unnecessary and incorrect that others do. Not everything that is written in every reference work or style guide is correct either.  Great job lining out the facts, mon amii.
(((All accusations of “prattling” aside, but I digress.)))

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I may have mentioned that I supervised the "Nouns" and "Pronouns" categories on Answers.com for eight years, until they turned me into a pink octopus and stripped my ID from all the thousands of entries I'd made. Bitter? Me?. (Sorry about taking off on a tangent.)

 

“ . . . I supervised the "Nouns" and "Pronouns" categories . . . ”

  I think I love you more right now than I ever have at any other time in my life.

  No, I was not aware of those facts at all. It’s very good to know, though. ~

 

 P. S. That’s not a tangent. This is a tangent:

(Just kidding.)
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I wasn't the "official" supervisor on the Tuvalu category, but no one else was and I answered most of those questions. If Tuvalu comes up here, I'll be on top of it. This post was edited by NYAD at December 29, 2022 7:39 PM MST

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OK, so why don’t you go argue with them?

 

  Well, for one thing, you’re the one who posted a defense of the practice. Who better to receive a rebuttal than the one who initiated the premise?

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Who should I argue with?

 

(With whom should I argue?)

 

 

I was trying to avoid the use of "whom", I even rewrote the sentence so I wouldn't have to use it. Even when it's used correctly, it looks wrong.

Once, when my kids were little, I was in the basement hanging laundry on the clothesline. I was agitated about something (don't remember what) when I heard myself say out loud, all alone in the basement, "That is something up with which I will not put!" I mean really... This post was edited by NYAD at December 29, 2022 8:20 PM MST

You couldn’t avoid whom no matter how you wrote the sentence. If you claim to know better than the AP Style Manual, you should know that WHOM goes with him, or, or them, as in “Whom should I argue with?” and WHO goes with he, she, or they, as in, “Who knows the answer?”

Who is the subjective pronoun; whom is the objective pronoun. I crafted a proper sentence with the subjective pronoun as the subject of the sentence! This post was edited by NYAD at December 29, 2022 8:54 PM MST

Knock Knock.

Who’s there?

With.

With who?

No, it’s with whom!

Exactly, "whom" as the OBJECT of the preposition "with".

The Associated Press.

That would be a job for Don Quixote.