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Settings "When you flip this switch" language problem
There is a "Settings" page available in your profile page. Some of the setting descriptions start with "When you flip this switch". Maybe "flip" means "enable" ...
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Strictly Necessary cookies text: "then" not grammatically correct
When customizing cookie settings, the following is shown under Strictly Necessary (click for bigger/sharper image):
These cookies are necessary for our website to function properly and cannot be ...
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Wrong phrasing in defender of the unicorn instructions page [closed]
Once you reach the defender of the unicorn page, it says
There she is! You have are almost there!
shouldn't it say either
There she is! You are almost there!
or
There she is! You have her almost ...
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Correcting editing-help#code
Here, in the Preformatted Text section, the sentence :
Indent four spaces to create an block of preformatted text
Should be
Indent four spaces to create a block of preformatted text
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Grammatical error (inelegance at the very least) in a close reason
I posted this on meta.unix.se but it applies to the whole network so I'm reposting here. One of the canned messages for closing a question reads
Please clarify your specific problem or add additional ...
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Fix "login" to verb "log in" on question pages
On the bottom of question pages is a prompt to "Sign up or login":
But login is a noun and log in is the verb.
See http://loginisnotaverb.com/ and "log in to" or "log into" or &...
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Change wording of "unclear what you're asking"
The current description of "unclear what you're asking" misuses the pronoun "it" in the second sentence, and this issue has really been bugging me. Specifically, the pronoun is being used to refer to ...
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Comma splice in message for nonexistent tag wiki
In the Tagged Questions list for a tag that has no tag wiki yet (see https://stackoverflow.com/tags?tab=new to find current examples), the message at the top reads
The bleep-bloop-blop-blorp tag ...
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