Random Silly Grins

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He missed ā€œDad and meā€, which should have been ā€œDad and Iā€. :wink:

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Well, him and me were trying to help her threw a problem to.

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Well, obviously. If they were correct in the first place, I couldnā€™t be pedantic about it.

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You could go over-the-top and out-pedant their pedantry.

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ā€œOut-quibble,ā€ perhaps? ā€œPedantā€ is a noun, not a verb.

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

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Now thatā€™s some good recursive pedantry right there.

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ā€œRecursionā€ 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 ā€œmeta-pedantry.ā€

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I bow to the master.

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The issue I always have with pedantry is the self-limiting nature of it. When it falls flat, thatā€™s one thing, but the poor bastard doing itā€¦ often they donā€™t notice. And when thatā€™s me it sometimes takes a week to get it.

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Also:

[S]hut up [comma] Daniel [comma] Iā€™m pissed [comma] Iā€™m not lookin[g] at my spell check!

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

Iā€™m not pleased about the excessive use of exclamation marks, either. Iā€™ll allow starting a sentence with ā€œAndā€, though. Iā€™m not a monster.

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See what Yogi Berra was up against?

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He knew the Kingā€™s English. And so was the Queen.

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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 didnā€™t find one of 'em, not one stinkin pedantā€¦

and definitely not a one pointing out that you canā€™t smell grammar errorsā€¦

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Wow. The winner was so good!

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

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I think ā€œEnglishā€ was a reference to technique.

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