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Just pointing out:
I am most emphatically not a grammar nerd.
I think it's just another one of the hoops that we all jump through to reinforce our ideals of social class. Grammar is intrinsic- you know when something makes sense or when it's meaningless babble (wannabe's posts). Reading a grammar book won't change that,just tell you where to put the commas and semi-colons.
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It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity.-- G.K. Chesterton
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