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Currently a double-major in math and linguistics with minors in German and Japanese at the University of Tennessee, in Knoxville.

I read a lot, and all over the place, content-wise. I also have a bad tendency to use German grammar in my English writing...which on second thought works pretty well for me.

It didn't help that I was only formally exposed to grammar when I started learning German.

...And just to proclaim my dorkiness to the world: I decided I wanted to study linguistics after I read The Lord of the Rings and found out Tolkien was a philologist. That was the only reason I ever went on a language kick. Before that I was an art/history nerd, with emphasis on the art. Who knows why?

...And, hey, as long as you're here, why not check out Libraries or Linguistics?

Fate is inexorable.

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46	What words are commonly mispronounced by literate people who read them before they heard them?
24	When should “into” be used rather than “in to,” and vice versa?
22	Difference between “try to do” and “try and do”
15	Is “rather” shifting to become a verb?
14	Shortest complete sentence in English

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+20	Difference between “try to do” and “try and do”
+10	Is it ever acceptable for a period to come after a quote at the end of a sentence?
+10	What is a better way to write: only three people signed up: you, me and “thehulk66”
+10	Is “rather” shifting to become a verb?

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4	What's a good word that means extraordinariness or exceptional-ness?

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96 word-choice × 19	19 verbs × 3
46 single-word-requests × 22	17 meaning × 4
24 prepositions	15 politeness × 3
23 grammaticality × 2	15 adverbs
22 verb-phrases	13 idioms × 4