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Re:Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear by tehwalrus on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @10:58AM (#7224987)
This, and singular they[1], make me very happy indeed - all the people who "correct" my grammar are actually, themselves, wrong (or, at most, people waving an opinion in my face as if it were a fact.) <3

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

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Re:Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear by commandar on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @11:24AM (#7225173)
There are a lot of prescriptive "rules" in English that aren't really rules. Ending sentences in prepositions is probably my favorite.
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Re:Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear by evanb on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @10:35PM (#7229197)
"This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put." --Churchill (maybe)

Some discussion:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001702.h...

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