He missed āDad and meā, which should have been āDad and Iā.
Well, him and me were trying to help her threw a problem to.
Well, obviously. If they were correct in the first place, I couldnāt be pedantic about it.
You could go over-the-top and out-pedant their pedantry.
āOut-quibble,ā perhaps? āPedantā is a noun, not a verb.
Every noun can be verbed, but gerunding is adverbly adjective.
Now thatās some good recursive pedantry right there.
āRecursionā would, at the very least, imply that the comment I was correcting was itself pedantic (although a more strict reading would imply a comment which pedantically corrected itself).
A more apt term might be āmeta-pedantry.ā
I bow to the master.
The issue I always have with pedantry is the self-limiting nature of it. When it falls flat, thatās one thing, but the poor bastard doing itā¦ often they donāt notice. And when thatās me it sometimes takes a week to get it.
Also:
[S]hut up [comma] Daniel [comma] Iām pissed [comma] Iām not lookin[g] at my spell check!
[S]he has had a rough day! ā¦ [A]nd you are not helping!
Iām not pleased about the excessive use of exclamation marks, either. Iāll allow starting a sentence with āAndā, though. Iām not a monster.
See what Yogi Berra was up against?
He knew the Kingās English. And so was the Queen.
I love the smell of verbed nouns in the morning.
You know, one time we had a noun verbed for 12 hoursā¦ When it was over, I walked up. We didnāt find one of 'em, not one stinkin pedantā¦
and definitely not a one pointing out that you canāt smell grammar errorsā¦
Wow. The winner was so good!
In a sub-thread about pedantry, shall I mention the fact that theyāre more German and Greek than English?
I think āEnglishā was a reference to technique.