Pedant Rant !

[fossyant]

Argh,

Pedant Pedantics !

Anyone got one at work? I have, always pulls you up on simple things and writes a sarcastic email back. Instead of getting worked up, one has to laugh.

Get a life !

 

[colly]

Argh,

Pedant Pedantics !

Anyone got one at work? I have, always pulls you up on simple things and writes a sarcastic email back. Instead of getting worked up, one has to laugh.

Get a life !

Are you sure you wanted a capital P on pedantics?

 

[Linford]

Shouldn't there be a space before the ?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Shouldn't really be a space before the exclamation mark.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Far too many voices - I, you and one. ''You have to laugh'' would have avoided the over-complication.

 

[accountantpete]

 

[Linford]

Isn't the B in spelling B short for Barsteward ?

 

[ColinJ]

I am sometimes a pedant. I try not to correct other people's spelling but it does bug me when people use the word 'break' instead of 'brake', for example. Yes, 99% of the time, the meaning is obvious, but I did see one example where there was an ambiguity and I genuinely couldn't tell if the word was concerned with slowing down or becoming broken! (Both words made sense in the context of the sentence.)

Double negatives (or worse - triple negatives) really throw me, so I usually ask people to simplify what they are saying in order that I can understand it!

 

[Belly]

I am sometimes a pedant. I try not to correct other people's spelling but it does bug me when people use the word 'break' instead of 'brake', for example. Yes, 99% of the time, the meaning is obvious, but I did see one example where there was an ambiguity and I genuinely couldn't tell if the word was concerned with slowing down or becoming broken! (Both words made sense in the context of the sentence.)

Double negatives (or worse - triple negatives) really throw me, so I usually ask people to simplify what they are saying in order that I can understand it!

I might of known you'd write something like that.

 

[fossyant]

the lot of you !

 

[Beebo]

Double negatives (or worse - triple negatives) really throw me, so I usually ask people to simplify what they are saying in order that I can understand it!

I havent done nothing honest!

Is pedantry an age thing? My dad (now 65) is far worse now than he was when I was a kid. Am I on the slow, inevitable decent to becoming a pedant?

 

[ColinJ]

I might of known you'd write something like that.

I'm not falling for that!

Oh, BTW - I remember you writing about 'Making the beast with two backs' in your Cycling Weekly column years ago. It was a highly colourful phrase which stuck in my mind and I thought you had made it up! Years later, I discovered that it is a centuries-old expression. Shakespeare used it in Othello!

...

Brabantio. What profane wretch art thou?

Iago. I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter
and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.

Brabantio. Thou art a villain.

...

 

[ColinJ]

I havent done nothing honest!

Somebody once said to me "I didn't not remember to do it!"

Is pedantry an age thing? My dad (now 65) is far worse now than he was when I was a kid. Am I on the slow, inevitable decent to becoming a pedant?

Yes! (When you are younger, you are more concerned with formulating campaigns that will lead to the removal of undergarments from attractive people, and are less concerned with such trivial details as whether they use double negatives in their sentences!)

 

[Beebo]

Somebody once said to me "I didn't not remember to do it!"

People like that can't make no sense from nobody

 

[rich p]

Someone told me recently that Which Tyler led the Pedants' Revolt