# \[low key\] Pure, proud ignorance on display **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 2, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336 "2010-02-02T04:16:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![put\_down\_the\_sabre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@put\_down\_the\_sabre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/put_down_the_sabre)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/1 "2010-02-02T04:16:58Z")
In [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=550118) thread. Seriously, people? I know that peevish prescriptivism will likely never be stampt out, but could you at least _look_ in a (free, online) dictionary before you decry a perfectly mainstream usage as ‘wrong’? I know for a fact you have a web browser and an internet connection. Now all you need is a brain. **Shakester** (post 4) and **Serenata67** (post 13), I’m looking at you. Fucking morons. pdts ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/2 "2010-02-02T04:24:29Z")
And did you look at the forum descriptions before you put this lame ass crap in the Pit? Also, it is stamped not “stampt”. Proof your own posts before you post bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/3 "2010-02-02T04:34:15Z")
> [@Klaatu](#): > > Also, it is stamped not “stampt”. Proof your own posts before you post bullshit. I think you’ve been whooshed. The OP used the archaic past tense form “stampt” as a joking reference to the (still-current) past tense form “spelt” in the linked thread. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![put\_down\_the\_sabre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@put\_down\_the\_sabre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/put_down_the_sabre)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/4 "2010-02-02T04:38:31Z")
> [@Klaatu](#): > > And did you look at the forum descriptions before you put this lame ass crap in the Pit? Don’t know what you mean … this is pretty clearly a ‘beef with another poster’. > [@Klaatu](#): > > Also, it is stamped not “stampt”. Proof your own posts before you post bullshit. Another one for the moron team. I know it always sounds lame when someone says this, but _whooosh_. I mean, Jesus. Thanks **Kimstu**! Though I’m not sure if ‘stampt’ ever was in use (and thus archaic), it struck me as amusing and somehow apposite. pdts ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/5 "2010-02-02T04:47:14Z")
I will freely admit when I am a moron and whooshed. But it is still a lame ass pit thread. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/6 "2010-02-02T04:50:53Z")
> [@pdts](#): > > Though I’m not sure if ‘stampt’ ever was in use (and thus archaic) Marry, good sir, that it hath been, as thou canst see plainely writ on the Cover of [this most godly Booke](http://openlibrary.org/b/OL18473733M/Goodnes_the_blessed_mans_badge_or_Gods_character_stampt_on_mans_conscience): > [@](#): > > Goodnes; the blessed mans badge: or Gods character stampt on mans conscience > In two sermons before the most excellent Prince Charles. By Richard Myddleton his Highnesse chaplayne. ---
**Author:** ![put\_down\_the\_sabre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@put\_down\_the\_sabre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/put_down_the_sabre)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/7 "2010-02-02T04:51:56Z")
> [@Klaatu](#): > > I will freely admit when I am a moron and whooshed. But it is still a lame ass pit thread. Thanks for apologising, apology accepted. But I stand by the pit thread: what is the point of general questions if people just wade in with their ill-informed, false, and easily checkable prejudices? pdts ---
**Author:** ![put\_down\_the\_sabre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@put\_down\_the\_sabre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/put_down_the_sabre)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/8 "2010-02-02T04:52:59Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Marry, good sir, that it hath been, as thou canst see plainely writ on the Cover of [this most godly Booke](http://openlibrary.org/b/OL18473733M/Goodnes_the_blessed_mans_badge_or_Gods_character_stampt_on_mans_conscience): Sweet! My search was cursory, limited to the OED. pdts ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/9 "2010-02-02T05:05:01Z")
> [@Klaatu](#): > > I will freely admit when I am a moron and whooshed. But it is still a lame ass pit thread. I’m just not getting this. It’s an issue with another poster, he wants to call them names (which he can’t do in GQ) and we’ve had untold numbers of grammar/spelling threads here. You know what is lame? Rating the pit-worthiness of a pit thread with nothing else to contribute. To the OP, far be it from me to cast stones… but then I don’t post with authority either. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/10 "2010-02-02T05:14:16Z")
I believe the correct spelling is ‘whoosht’. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/11 "2010-02-02T05:32:20Z")
> [@E.Thorp](#): > > I believe the correct spelling is ‘whoosht’. You beat me to it. I’ll bet that is what he meaned to write. meant? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/12 "2010-02-02T05:43:14Z")
> [@E. Thorp](#): > > I believe the correct spelling is ‘whoosht’. Now I’m having a sharp attack of post-edit-window regret. That is _SO_ how I should have spelt it back in post #3. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/13 "2010-02-02T05:51:07Z")
Well, sometimes you just have to play the game with the cards you are dealed. dealt? ---
**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/14 "2010-02-02T05:53:21Z")
Here’s a novel idea: How about letting the mods decide what is pit worthy and what is not? And if you do report a post for being inappropriate, let us all know once and for all, and have done with it. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/15 "2010-02-02T06:16:10Z")
And isn’t it \*\*Ivnt’s \*\*job to threadshit about what is and isn’t worthy of the Pit? That’s fuckt. ---
**Author:** ![ivn1188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@ivn1188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivn1188)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/16 "2010-02-02T06:41:39Z")
> [@put\_down\_the\_sabre](#): > > Thanks for apologising, apology accepted. > > But I stand by the pit thread: what is the point of general questions if people just wade in with their ill-informed, false, and easily checkable prejudices? > > pdts Amen to that. GQ is not the place for irrelevant anecdotes and WAGs. And it’s a better pit thread than yet another interminable “Conservatives! I pit you!” thread full of “liberals” whose talking points are about as well thought out as the position of the rednecks who don’t want none of that commie medicare shit. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/17 "2010-02-02T07:10:08Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > And isn’t it **Ivnt** ’s job to threadshit about what is and isn’t worthy of the Pit? That’s fuckt. Now now, he was just a few minutes late. Must have mislaid his badge. ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/18 "2010-02-02T07:16:38Z")
There was [another thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=550131) recently seriously asking “Is the use of ‘myself’ ever grammatically correct?.. Is it a real word?”. This is the state of nervous cluelessness (in Pullum’s words) that peevish prescriptivist poppycock has pretty much made the mainstream. Sure, this isn’t news, it happens all the time and we’re all accustomed to it by years of experience, but still… goddamn. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/19 "2010-02-02T07:37:04Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Now now, he was just a few minutes late. Must have mislaid his badge. Now now, he was just a few minutes late. Must have **mislait** his badge. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336/20 "2010-02-02T07:48:22Z")
> [@Indistinguishable](#): > > There was another thread recently seriously asking “Is the use of ‘myself’ ever grammatically correct?.. Is it a real word?”. This is the state of nervous cluelessness (in Pullum’s words) that peevish prescriptivist poppycock has pretty much made the mainstream. Where are you getting the notion that the query in that thread stemmed from “prescriptivist poppycock”? The OP of that thread asked: > [@](#): > > The word myself just seems like an awkward word. Seems like “me” or “I” would be more appropriate every sentence I can think of. Is it a real word? His problem with the use of “myself” evidently wasn’t that it violated grammatical rules, or that a teacher told him not to use it, or anything like that. Rather, he didn’t like it because it sounded awkward and inappropriate to him. How is that prescriptivism’s fault? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-key-pure-proud-ignorance-on-display/527336.md?page=2)