Random Silly Grins

LearnedCoward · January 12, 2019, 2:07am

Every noun can be verbed, but gerunding is adverbly adjective.

kxkvi · January 12, 2019, 2:07am

Now that’s some good recursive pedantry right there.

nimelennar · January 12, 2019, 2:16am

“Recursion” 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 “meta-pedantry.”

kxkvi · January 12, 2019, 3:11am

I bow to the master.

AndyHilmer · January 12, 2019, 3:16am

The issue I always have with pedantry is the self-limiting nature of it. When it falls flat, that’s one thing, but the poor bastard doing it… often they don’t notice. And when that’s me it sometimes takes a week to get it.

teknocholer · January 12, 2019, 3:20am

Also:

[S]hut up [comma] Daniel [comma] I’m pissed [comma] I’m not lookin[g] at my spell check!

[S]he has had a rough day! … [A]nd you are not helping!

I’m not pleased about the excessive use of exclamation marks, either. I’ll allow starting a sentence with “And”, though. I’m not a monster.

RAvery · January 12, 2019, 4:35am

AndyHilmer · January 12, 2019, 4:46am

See what Yogi Berra was up against?

LearnedCoward · January 12, 2019, 5:28am

He knew the King’s English. And so was the Queen.

Nonentity · January 12, 2019, 5:35am

I love the smell of verbed nouns in the morning.

You know, one time we had a noun verbed for 12 hours… When it was over, I walked up. We didn’t find one of 'em, not one stinkin pedant…

and definitely not a one pointing out that you can’t smell grammar errors…

ChickieD · January 12, 2019, 5:48am

Wow. The winner was so good!

chgoliz · January 12, 2019, 3:25pm

In a sub-thread about pedantry, shall I mention the fact that they’re more German and Greek than English?

kxkvi · January 12, 2019, 3:28pm

I think “English” was a reference to technique.

MalevolentPixy · January 13, 2019, 5:25am

Nonentity · January 13, 2019, 7:10pm

For other animal-related advice…

kxkvi · January 13, 2019, 8:05pm

We have to give a chemo capsule to our cat Talia twice a week. She’s doing real well. But fighting to get the damn capsule down is a struggle. She is fucking strong. Really makes you appreciate her evolutionary ancestors.

teknocholer · January 13, 2019, 8:50pm

LearnedCoward · January 13, 2019, 11:16pm

Cat software running on dog hardware describes hyenas perfectly.

That, and a male hyena has a smaller penis than a female hyena (thank you Humon Comics).

LearnedCoward · January 13, 2019, 11:17pm

I’ll bet. I can’t even trim a cat’s nails without that sweet little kitty turning into Satan.

chgoliz · January 13, 2019, 11:42pm

…goes off to google…holy moly!!!