Confessions of a recovering pedant
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1Muscogulus
http://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/the-confessions-of-a-recovering-pe...
I didn't write this, but did respond warmly to it.
Oh dear. I may have to exile myself from the group.
I didn't write this, but did respond warmly to it.
Oh dear. I may have to exile myself from the group.
2jjwilson61
I especially liked this part,
And then you bask in a glory far greater than that which Verity had sought. Frank gazes in awe at you, sage and saviour; Verity yields to your superior learning with an admiring smile. You shall surely have your pick of their beds tonight.
And then you bask in a glory far greater than that which Verity had sought. Frank gazes in awe at you, sage and saviour; Verity yields to your superior learning with an admiring smile. You shall surely have your pick of their beds tonight.
4barney67
He never learned the difference between a pedant and someone who uses the language accurately.
If he can't define a word, it's little wonder that he become a fanatic in one direction and then a fanatic in the other, as is often the case. Prudence rides along with precision.
I stopped reading soon after, "We all know where from the rules of English come from."
If the grammar is wrong, it doesn't say much for the article's content.
When I worked for a newspaper, and someone dowloaded the wrong weather report, an editor complained loudly that if the newsroom couldn't get the weather report correct, why would the reader trust the rest of the paper to be correct?
If he can't define a word, it's little wonder that he become a fanatic in one direction and then a fanatic in the other, as is often the case. Prudence rides along with precision.
I stopped reading soon after, "We all know where from the rules of English come from."
If the grammar is wrong, it doesn't say much for the article's content.
When I worked for a newspaper, and someone dowloaded the wrong weather report, an editor complained loudly that if the newsroom couldn't get the weather report correct, why would the reader trust the rest of the paper to be correct?
5jjwilson61
>4 barney67: That just proves his point that you should conform your speech to your audience otherwise you may lose them.
6thorold
>4 barney67:
Presumably he put "whence" in the first draft, then overcompensated...
Presumably he put "whence" in the first draft, then overcompensated...
7CliffordDorset
I don't like the idea of needing to 'recover' from being a pedant. It implies that pedantry is a disease. If you try, or even feel the urge, to recover, then you're not a pedant, surely?
8thorold
>7 CliffordDorset:
I think the implied analogy does make some sense - the urge to act pedantically could be seen as a form of addiction (albeit a relatively benign one). The action of walking past a restaurant chalkboard without deleting the superfluous apostrophes doesn't make you any less of a pedant, but it might make you less of a menace to society.
I think the implied analogy does make some sense - the urge to act pedantically could be seen as a form of addiction (albeit a relatively benign one). The action of walking past a restaurant chalkboard without deleting the superfluous apostrophes doesn't make you any less of a pedant, but it might make you less of a menace to society.
