This is the nearly complete list of
Userboxes that I've found that apply to me. There are many more here than I've chosen to put on
my main Userpage, simply because there are so many Userboxes that apply.
- Where applicable and/or necessary, I've included a little extra information explaining why and/or how a particular Userbox applies.
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猴 | This user was born in the year of the
Monkey. |
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![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/National_Public_Radio_logo.svg/70px-National_Public_Radio_logo.svg.png) | This user listens to
NPR. |
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Im a
Virgo, and was born in the
year of the Monkey. That's all I'm telling you.
On the ancestry thing, I've inluded both ends of the scale, because they both apply to me. Because I've got roots all over
Europe (hence the "multi"), I don't consider myself hyphenated (hence the "none").
I read a lot of nonfiction
books; a lot of them seem to be about the
Middle Ages (hence that particular userbox). And I like the movie
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I might be able to go see
Spamalot now that it's been open a while. Oh, and I also
knit and
quilt. My major news source is
NPR, and I'm a
Mets fan.
In theory, I'm a student at
Brooklyn College, a part of the
City University of New York — not to be confused with the
State University of New York. (For the record, the acronyms CUNY and SUNY are pronounced "CUE-knee" and "SUE-knee.") But in reality, I have a day job, and I'm past the stage of education where there are a whole lot of sections of everything. Oh, and I have a rough draft of a Brooklyn College Userbox at
User:AnnaKucsma/Sandbox/Userboxes In Progress.
These explain my profficiency in various languages. I'm a native speaker of
English, specifially the
American variety. I know some
French, but nothing impressive.
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their there they're | This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling! |
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your you're | This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help. |
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its & it's | This user understands the difference between
its and
it's. So should you. |
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snuk | This user says
snuck. |
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These boxes state my preferences in
grammar,
punctuation and
syntax within the
English
language.
I freely admit to being a stickler, albeit a minor one. See
Lynne Truss's
Eats, Shoots and Leaves for a definition and description. The book does provide a refresher course, complete with examples of just what can go wrong when you don't pay attention to where all those dots go.
The
passive voice isn't really a stickler thing for me, but in theory it should be avoided (or, in theory one should avoid the passive voice). I tend to think it is sometimes neccesary, as it sometimes makes for better prose. The passive voice only gets to me when prose doesn't use anything else. As for "snuck," I think "sneaked" sounds weird, despite being nearer to the regular past tense. (I use "pled" as the past tense of "plea," but even
NPR uses "pleaded.")
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I love NY
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This user
♥ NY.
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EST. |
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I live in the
United States of America. Yup, I'm a Yank. I'm also a resident of New York
state and
city, boroughs of
Brooklyn. I love it here.
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This user does not have an
iPod, but wants one.
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band-2 | This user listens to
Altan. |
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band-2 | This user listens to
Solas. |
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For my music interests generally, see
my main page. Bands listed here are
Altan,
Autour de Lucie,
the Battlefield Band,
Cherish the Ladies,
Natalie MacMaster,
Shooglenifty, and
Solas.