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

Hell, half the country celebrates that every day.

Posted - March 20, 2021

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  • 13277
    It's celebrated every day on the Internet.
      March 20, 2021 3:31 PM MDT
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  • 1953
    So stay off the internet.
      March 20, 2021 4:38 PM MDT
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  • 23522
    Hi, Stu Spelling Bee!! Yay!
    :)
      March 20, 2021 7:00 PM MDT
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  • 44578
    Why should the internet be capitalized?
      March 21, 2021 9:08 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    According to the Associated Press style manual, a required tool for newspaper writers and editors.
      March 21, 2021 10:49 AM MDT
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  • 44578
    Thank you.
      March 23, 2021 12:18 PM MDT
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  • 844
    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.
      December 29, 2022 10:13 AM MST
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  • 53478

      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.)))

    ~

      December 29, 2022 11:40 AM MST
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  • 844
    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.)
      December 29, 2022 11:53 AM MST
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  • 53478

     

    “ . . . 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. ~

      December 29, 2022 12:01 PM MST
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  • 53478

     

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

    (Just kidding.)
    ~

      December 29, 2022 12:03 PM MST
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  • 844
    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
      December 29, 2022 12:33 PM MST
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  • 53478

    ~

     

      December 29, 2022 12:45 PM MST
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  • 13277
    OK, so why don’t you go argue with them?
      December 29, 2022 12:05 PM MST
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  • 53478

     

      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?


    ~

      December 29, 2022 12:26 PM MST
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  • 844
    Who should I argue with?
      December 29, 2022 12:37 PM MST
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  • 53478

     

    (With whom should I argue?)

     






     

      December 29, 2022 12:50 PM MST
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  • 844
    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
      December 29, 2022 1:01 PM MST
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  • 13277
    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?”
      December 29, 2022 7:30 PM MST
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  • 844
    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
      December 29, 2022 7:42 PM MST
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  • 5451
    Knock Knock.

    Who’s there?

    With.

    With who?

    No, it’s with whom!

      December 29, 2022 8:25 PM MST
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  • 844
    Exactly, "whom" as the OBJECT of the preposition "with".
      December 30, 2022 11:07 AM MST
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  • 13277
    The Associated Press.
      December 29, 2022 1:26 PM MST
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  • 844
    That would be a job for Don Quixote.
      December 29, 2022 6:00 PM MST
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