I am no longer a grammar Nazi.

[Lorizael]

http://gizmodo.com/mans-wikipedia-edits-mostly-consist-of-deleting-compris-1683631156

How far would you go to correct your pet peeve? Would you you create a computer program just to find it? Would you build a weekly, scheduled habit around curating those results? Would you, ultimately, manually edit tens of thousands of Wikipedia articles to obliterate that pet peeve from the face of the internet?

This is just about the saddest thing I've ever read.*

*The above statement is completely untrue.

[Sava]

Hmm. I'd considered doing some grammatical editing on Wikipedia before. Though, I take solace in the fact that my urge to insert inappropriate comments is just as strong as my urge to correct mistakes.

[Lorizael]

I have on occasion corrected poor grammar/typos that I run across while browsing Wikipedia, but I really only do it on a whim.

[Aeson]

"Wiki" isn't a word and should be removed from all online user edited encyclopaedias.

[Aeson]

Chrome just told me encyclopedias is not a word either, and corrected me. Such a spelling Nazi

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well after you posted "My ex, Elok..." in another thread, I don't think you could claim grammar Nazi-dom, even if you wanted to .

[Sava]

Chrome just told me encyclopedias is not a word either, and corrected me. Such a spelling Nazi

Spellcheck isn't considered a word. I think it should be.

[Thoth]

*grammer

[Sava]

[Lorizael]

Well after you posted "My ex, Elok..." in another thread, I don't think you could claim grammar Nazi-dom, even if you wanted to .

That sentence wasn't wrong, just stylistically unwieldy and semantically ambiguous.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Grammatically speaking, it was incorrect. The comma in that situation is used to set off parenthetical elements. You failed by not doing so, but rather referencing someone else.

If you were using the comma to set off introductory elements, you should have said "Elok, my ex..." without a closing comma.

[Sava]

Grammatically speaking, it was incorrect. The comma in that situation is used to set off parenthetical elements. You failed by not doing so, but rather referencing someone else.

If you were using the comma to set off introductory elements, you should have said "Elok, my ex..." without a closing comma.

this

[DinoDoc]

Fixed that for you.

[Sava]

(thankworthy, I have none right now )

[Lorizael]

Grammatically speaking, it was incorrect. The comma in that situation is used to set off parenthetical elements. You failed by not doing so, but rather referencing someone else.

If you were using the comma to set off introductory elements, you should have said "Elok, my ex..." without a closing comma.

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.

It's a vocative address, Imran, and it's perfectly grammatical.