# Oh dopers! Why are you so pedantic? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 31, 2012, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dopers-why-are-you-so-pedantic/629930 "2012-07-31T05:49:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dopers-why-are-you-so-pedantic/629930/81 "2012-08-08T02:46:49Z")
To go meta here, maybe we’re all just a bunch of fuckin’ Aspies. (I am.) ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dopers-why-are-you-so-pedantic/629930/82 "2012-08-08T02:49:55Z")
How could you be a ‘bunch’ of people? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dopers-why-are-you-so-pedantic/629930/83 "2012-08-08T02:54:13Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Don’t pedant me, bro. Pedantic? Better Ped than Dead. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dopers-why-are-you-so-pedantic/629930/84 "2012-08-08T06:38:31Z")
> [@Chief\_Pedant](#): > > The question is like a ten year-old asking what’s so great about an orgasm…on the Straight Dope whatever is in second place to being the most correct is so far behind no one cares that it was a pretty good answer. Whatever you say .. Chief of pedants!😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ksnook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ce7236/32.png) [@Ksnook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ksnook)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dopers-why-are-you-so-pedantic/629930/85 "2012-08-10T17:01:58Z")
I was in a creative writing class, where the Prof. had the class all look out the nearest window, then write a succinct descriptive sentence on the blackboard, for us all to critique. The student before me wrote, “I saw a bear ass”. When I enquired as to whether the posterior in question was Ursine or merely unclothed, the PROFESSOR told me to stop being such a pendant. Yup. ---
**Author:** ![bowlweevils](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e5b9ba/32.png) [@bowlweevils](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bowlweevils)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dopers-why-are-you-so-pedantic/629930/86 "2012-08-10T17:12:04Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > Seriously, this has been bugging me for 32 years. It’s been bugging me for three, no, four minutes that that’s been bugging you for 32 years. However, I has been bugging me for for 32 years that I came in 2nd place in my first grade class’s spelling bee to Tina Kendrick despite the fact that I did indeed spell “Wednesday” right, and my teacher either didn’t notice or didn’t know how to spell “Wednesday” herself, and told me I was wrong. Five minutes now. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dopers-why-are-you-so-pedantic/629930/87 "2012-08-10T17:47:20Z")
> [@ddaug4uf](#): > > Jeez! It really isn’t that difficult. Oh! But it is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dopers-why-are-you-so-pedantic/629930.md?page=4)