Off the Record

You don’t know about me at all, but I can tell I have read that story by Mark Twain, about Huck Finn. If you like the story too, we could get along, I guess.

Mark Twain wrote his yarn a human way and came out real neat, in the end. This is what we do around here: we talk human, to come out neat. Check us out at languagetool.org if you like, copy and paste.

And well, however big you are and whatever you read, remember not to bond with your nose to it.

12 inches away is reasonable for human eyes. We have made this screen easy for a Big Foot away.

We’re not alone; granny talks grammar too. Welcome.

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