Atakdoug

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This user was a member of the League of Copyeditors.

This editor is a WikiGnome.

Is human.This user is a participant in the Grammar WikiProject.

This user is a random page patroller.

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

Personal

This user supports protection of the environment.

This user has visited 50 of the 50 United States.50

This user has visited 13 of the 10 provinces and 3 territories of Canada.13

62This user has visited 62 of the 208 countries in the world.

This user loves playing bridge, and does so professionally.

This user is a certified scuba diver.

This user is an ex-birder, but still knows his stuff.

This user wants to tax the rich to provide health care, education and welfare for everyone._†$ £
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This user recognizes the right of Iraqis to resist occupation.

?This user supports the right of all individuals and groups to resist violently military aggression by other parties, but due to an alleged consensus he is not allowed to be specific, because divisiveness is unacceptable.

This user wishes he had a girlfriend.

Grammar

ANAL 5This user is incredibly stringent with professional grammar.

its & it'sThis user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.

they
he or sheThis user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage.

infin¦
itiveThis user chooses never to split infinitives.

whomThis user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees.

which & thatThis user knows how to use which and that correctly.

Latin Plurals: "Data is are..."

This user uses "data", "media", "memoranda", "criteria", and "agenda" as the plurals of "datum", "medium", "memorandum", "criterion", and "agendum".

“,;:’This user is a punctuation stickler.

since

This user dislikes the use of since to mean because.

Majority ≠ right

This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.

Welcome, all. I'm Atakdoug. Never mind why. Here, I'm an occasional Wikignome, most of whose edits are corrections to the grammar, punctuation, or spelling of our well-meaning but sometimes less than perfectly erudite contributors. Note: I can't type for shit, so when you see that I've written "teh" or "shoudl" somewhere, please either correct it (in the mainspace) or just understand (in talk). I'm fallible. A little.

In real life I live in Arizona. I'd have a userbox to this effect but it would display a US flag, and that's not something I'm terribly comfortable with right now. I consider myself a citizen of the planet that we collectively (everywhere) are doing our best to destroy.