# Nit Pick the previous thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 27, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nit-pick-the-previous-thread/454515 "2008-06-27T23:33:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nit-pick-the-previous-thread/454515/21 "2008-06-29T00:24:39Z")
To be fair and balanced, **emilyforce** , you _really_ ought to have also included an example of the incorrect, quotation mark-infused situation you described. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nit-pick-the-previous-thread/454515/22 "2008-06-29T04:09:32Z")
I feel that your third comma is superfluous. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nit-pick-the-previous-thread/454515/23 "2008-06-29T04:23:35Z")
You _feel_ it is superfluous? Either it is or it isn’t, there is no _feel_. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nit-pick-the-previous-thread/454515/24 "2008-06-29T04:29:56Z")
**USCD** , there is too a feel. I copped one earlier today. I feel good that I did. Do you feel me on _feel_? SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![WoodenTaco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@WoodenTaco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WoodenTaco)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nit-pick-the-previous-thread/454515/25 "2008-06-29T04:53:13Z")
“Do you feel me on feel” is an unusually awkward construction. It’s so awkward, in fact, that it loses it’s cleverness. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nit-pick-the-previous-thread/454515/26 "2008-06-29T04:57:17Z")
Um, _it’s_!! I can’t even properly call that a nit pick! ---
**Author:** ![WoodenTaco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@WoodenTaco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WoodenTaco)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nit-pick-the-previous-thread/454515/27 "2008-06-29T04:59:59Z")
Damn, you caught on to my plot! I was going to call someone out for calling that a nit. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nit-pick-the-previous-thread/454515/28 "2008-06-29T05:59:14Z")
I don’t believe that to ‘call someone out’ is proper when the format is clearly text. Please refrain from such colorful allusions in this most serious thread. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nit-pick-the-previous-thread/454515/29 "2008-06-29T06:05:03Z")
[QUOTE=Kuboydal] I don’t believe that to ‘call someone out’ is proper when the format is clearly text. Please refrain from such colorful allusions in this most serious thread. [/QUOTE] You should use double quotation marks. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nit-pick-the-previous-thread/454515/30 "2008-06-29T12:41:20Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] You should use double quotation marks. [/QUOTE] Yes, but where? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nit-pick-the-previous-thread/454515/31 "2008-06-30T17:05:20Z")
Asking for clarification when the intended meaning of the previous poster was so patently obvious is clearly a desperate attempt to participate in the game without any real justification. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nit-pick-the-previous-thread/454515/32 "2008-06-30T17:21:46Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Cat] Asking for clarification when the intended meaning of the previous poster was so patently obvious is clearly a desperate attempt to participate in the game without any real justification. [/QUOTE] TLDR. ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nit-pick-the-previous-thread/454515/33 "2008-06-30T18:13:12Z")
Posting a series of consonants barely qualifies as a reply; let alone a nitpick. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nit-pick-the-previous-thread/454515/34 "2008-06-30T18:34:33Z")
[QUOTE=Full Metal Lotus] Posting a series of consonants barely qualifies as a reply; let alone a nitpick. [/QUOTE] That semicolon should be a comma. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nit-pick-the-previous-thread/454515/35 "2008-07-01T15:05:06Z")
If you were to allow for regional variations in the rules of grammar, the semicolon could also satisfactorily be replaced by a period. The second sentence would then become a cry for lenienicy and I find it unforgivable that you would trounce upon this plea. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nit-pick-the-previous-thread/454515/36 "2008-07-02T12:45:24Z")
Trounce upon? This must be some definition of the word “trounce” that I wasn’t previously aware of. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nit-pick-the-previous-thread/454515.md?page=1)