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Will, I don't think understatement counts as not having learned the language. If it did, most things the English ever wrote or said would qualify to be in here.
This isn't a thread for criticising inaccuracy. It's a space for people who know nothing about linguistics but have learned a few trivial "rules" (mostly arbitrary style choices whose context is long gone) to sneer at people who didn't learn the same trivia. This is a thread for mocking people who don't use Typesetter's Quotation. Bonus points if you have no idea why it has that name or how it came to be (and why it's pointless).
Aside from Greengrocer's Comma, of course. That's the spawn of the devil.