For bitching about language pedantry, other posters' language, and language in general

@kaylasdad99, I like your contributions in general. But please, cut the annoying pedantic corrections of people’s spelling and grammar. Is there a risk of misunderstanding? Is it something that posters will be genuinely thankful to learn? If no, then keep it to yourself.

No one is reading posts like the below and thinking, wow, this conversation is really improved by that correction.

Your initial thought to not bother? Go with that.

Cut out annoying pedantic corrections in the PIT? Are you mad? What else is the pit for, really?

The comma in this sentence, while it does add an exasperated whiny tone to the lecture that I’m sure was intentional, would be generally regarded as redundant and the finger-wagging would be at least as annoying without it.

Ahem:

For what else is the pit, really?

:rofl:

I distinguish between pedantic corrections and annoying pedantic corrections. The former are fine (and encouraged), the latter are annoying.

Please don’t ask me to define the difference, because that would be annoying.

First of all, thank you for the kind words

Secondly, that crap is nails on a chalkboard for me, and I’m genuinely trying to put a stop to it. I do realize that it’s like telling the rain to stop, but I can’t help it.

I was hoping you had misspelled something so I could and pretend to be pedantic about it but really be joking, ad lib queen and all
But no. Your words are perfect.

The last sentence is hiding behind the passive voice. Its meaning becomes clearer when stated in the active voice, thus: “I approve of the former and encourage it; I find the latter annoying”.

Which then, of course, invites the obvious retort that, respectfully, no one cares what you prefer.

Has anyone ever told you your username should have an apostrophe? And spaces? And be capitalized?

By that logic, shouldn’t you have more clearly stated, in the active voice… “I, wolfpup, am a pedant who picks apart perfectly viable constructions of the English language for no better reason than to see myself type”?

I dispute the defense of “perfectly viable constructions” which is, at best, entirely subjective. Otherwise, I concur! :grin:

Besides pun wars, rabbit-hole diving, hijacks, and varyingly successful attempts at humor?

Recipes.

Yahoo! didn’t tell me when I first registered it with them (so I could play Hearts), and in fact, wouldn’t allow those shenanigans. Although they probably would have allowed capitalization, so that’s my bad.

And ftr,* NOT everything is nails on chalkboard for me.

*For The Record

And can we turn back the polluted, sludge-filled tide of people using the verb “lay” when it should be “lie”?

It’s a fair cop. Also, song parodies.

A song parody about recipes.

:musical_score: :notes: Oh, I’ve been workin’ on the biscuits … all the live long day … :musical_note:

My Bologna!

We had a short sprint of a book club once.