The Pedant's Revolt

[Richmond Clements]

Getting really pedantic about guns is a great way to convince people you're a total psychopath.


What, even in the States??

[Art]

Oooooh yes.

[Trout]

Brothers!

What a great bunch you are.

- Trout

[Funt Solo]

A bunch of grapes or widgeons, King Trout, but a crowd of people.

(Sorry.)

[Trout]

Well done that funt!

[Wake]

I used to despair at psychology students mixing up affect and effect, but now I'm more worried about their grasp of basic English grammar.

Cheers,

Wake

[Proudhuff]

A friend at college who teaches Chemistry has told of essays handed in more or less written in TXT ! but they have to be accepted as the english content is not what's being marked

Pedants of the world unite! or should that be unit?

Leftbridge Stewart-Huff

[Matt Timson]

TXT SPK really annoys me.  I shorten the odd word here and there to make a text fit- but that's about it.  Capital letters, correct spelling and reasonable punctuation accompany all of my texts.

Pedant...

[Satanist]

People (usually managers) who say 110% bring on the red mist.

[Roger Godpleton]

Kirk never said "Beam me up Scotty".

[Banners]

Sign on local takeaway...

"Home Delivery's Avaliable"

Surely some degree of skill in spelling and grammar is a pre-requisite for becoming a signwriter? What's worse is that the 'restraunter' is probably none-the-wiser either.

Still, it makes me feel superior, so that's quite good. (Although, saying that, I bet neither of them get Jamie Hewlett and Rian Hughes mixed up).

M@

[test 4 echo]

"Surely some degree of skill in spelling and grammar is a pre-requisite for becoming a signwriter? "

Not in my experience, I know one who couldn't spell Gibraltar. There was briefly a ship getting a refit and paint job in Tyneside that was registered in Gibralter. If you're going to make a spelling mistake might as well do it in letters 10 foot high and let hundreds of people see it.

[Thursday]

Could that just be a contraction of "home delivery is available"?  

[Floyd-the-k]

Yes and Yes to both your question

Did you know that marble is always 18 degrees cooler than the air that surrounds it? Celsius of course*

Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again Sam". Probably Dorothy Parker did, since she said everything.

I too wondered about that apostrophe

yours thinking of other pedantries

*don't get pedantic on me if this isn't true - I'm just quoting from Bedazzled

[Dan Kelly]

A billion has 12 noughts.  Not Nine.