This site is for all those nitpickers out there, as much as I hate you all, this will give you more ammo. No to mention that this site could do wonders for Straight Dopers who hate to be criticized for misplacing an apostrophe.
I think you meant “Not to mention…”.
Oh, and there’s a close quote missing from your .sig.
I was waiting for both of those mistakes to be pointed out. Thank you for not letting me down. There is another mistake in the quote… possibly more.
“This site” is ambiguous. You ought to make it clear that you are not referring to “this site” as in the Straight Dope, but to the site which the reader may access via the link provided. Moreover, since it is reasonable to expect the readers of these Boards to understand what a hypertext link is, a more economical approach would be to simply write, “This link is for all…” or “Here is a link for all…” .
Your first sentence lacks syntax and is poorly constructed. The conjunction at the start of the second phrase is not used legitimately, since there is no consistency with regard to the subject of the sentence up to that point. The third phrase does not follow from the two preceding phrases, and the relative pronoun with which it begins is redundant.
A clearer and tidier alternative would have been: “This link will be of interest to grammatical nit-pickers, whom I hate.”
“No to mention” should be “Not to mention”, as has already been agreed, and is in any case a non sequitur. A clearer rendering would have been, “It will also do wonders for Straight Dopers…” .
What’s that you say? Oh, I see. Well, I’m not sure that inviting me to enjoy sexual congress with myself is entirely appropriate, but I can see it’s time for me to move on.
Ianzin, it should be noted that your first sentence is a sentence fragment.
Deathstatic’s first sentence is a run-on. Changing either comma to a semicolon would remedy the problem.
Thanks for the link, Deathstatic. Oh, and there’s another error; I get “The page cannot be displayed” when I try to click through.
No, modru, it’s a perfectly good sentence, with a subject (’“This site”’) and a predicate (’ is ambiguous’)
Your post should also be rewritten so that the passive voice may be avoided.
Isn’t nit-picking fun? 
:dubious:
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt on this one…
First of all, Modro, your statement is self-contradictory in that something cannot be both a sentence and a sentence fragment. What you meant to say was, “That which you intended to be a complete sentence is in fact only a sentence fragment”.
Secondly, your statement is incorrect. The first sentence of my previous post is complete, as rjk has so helpfully noted.
However, rjk described my first sentence as “good”. This is a term pertaining only to moral issues. What he meant was, “it’s a well-formed sentence” or “it’s a complete sentence”.
With regard to rjk’s second statement, the common belief that the passive voice should be avoided is based on a misunderstanding, and is supported neither by rules of grammar nor considerations pertaining to good style. It may also be worth pointing out that his statement itself features the use of the passive voice, and hence subverts its own recommendation. However, it may be that rjk did this intentionally for the sake of being witty.
Gawd, if I was like this all the time, I’d shoot myself. I need to drop this act while I still can, and before something ‘snaps’ inside and I get stuck in ‘pedantic dunkwit’ mode.
Use parallel structure, please! Your phrase “neither by rules of grammar nor considerations pertaining to good style” is inferior to the phrase “neither by rules of grammar nor by considerations pertaining to good style.”
[Not written in smart-ass pedant mode this time so cut me some slack]
Congratulations to you, Achernar! You score one point, and let me tell it’s been a long time since anyone has managed that! I’m impressed and delighted to meet someone else who would even think of using a phrase like ‘parallel structure’. Ah, the joys of pedantry…
Nitpicking makes my head explode.
KABLAM
The link in my original post… is it not working for anyone? Works fine for me.
Well, if we’re actually looking for things about which to be picky, I would note that you have ignored the explicit request of the site’s author:
On the linked page, he notes that the only (miniscule) compensation he receives is via the counter that is only activated if one links directly to the appropriate pages:
Thank you Tomndebb.
The passive voice is so passé.