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"Who would have thought a Twitter account could gain nearly 8,000 followers in 60 tweets over 3 days \u2014 just by correcting one piece of poor grammar over and over?\nThat's what happened to @yourinamerica, an account entirely devoted to naming, shaming and correcting every tweet that contains the hideously illiterate statement \"your [sic] in America.\" Invariably, what follows that phrase is the ironic admonition: \"learn English.\"\nThe account kicked off on Friday with a typical tweet, this one correcting a user in Macon, Georgia:\n\nIt's \"you're.\" RT @tallcan100 Absolutely pisses me off when someone that doesn't speak English gets rude with me. Your in America!\n\u2014 Your in America Bot (@YourInAmerica) November 24, 2012\n\nThat user deleted his original tweet \u2014 as often appears to be the case with @yourinamerica's victims. \nProving itself an equal-opportunity grammarian, @yourinamerica has also taken to correcting tweets from across the pond:\n\n#jheeeez, it's \"you're.\" RT @ben_coombes: your in england so speak english!!! #jheez\n\u2014 Your in America Bot (@YourInAmerica) November 24, 2012\n\nNobody knows the masked linguistic avenger behind the suddenly popular account (its avatar: a mug with Captain America on it). But whatever its true identity, we're betting thousands of English teachers are grateful for its presence.\nIndeed, given the highly publicized gaffe in a Mitt Romney app earlier this year \u2014 which promised \"a better Amercia [sic]\" \u2014 perhaps we should be grateful that those Twitter users at least knew how to spell the name of their country.\nWhat language mistakes would you like to see corrected every time they pop up on social media? Let us know in the comments.\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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