Oh dopers! Why are you so pedantic?

[Ximenean]

Q: Who led the Pedants’ Revolt?

A: Which Tyler

@Giles

Now that’s pedantry

I’d say it was pernickety rather than pedantic.

[Alessan]

Tomato*, tomato**.

*Unspecified American accent.

**Unspecified English accent.

[dataguy]

@DrFidelius

Precise communication expedites understanding.

And shit.

Brilliant.
This just made me laugh out loud at work.

[John_DiFool]

Damn-and here all this time I would have sworn it was spelled pendantic…

[WordMan]

• Because pendantry is a powerful weapon in the Fight Against Ignorance!!

• To eschew obfuscation?

• Because it’s fun?

• How else can I come across as haughty and dismissive when I’m online and you can’t see me arch my eyebrow in disdain?

[johnpost]

you could have said

Why are y’all so pedantic?

or

Why are youse so pedantic?

and i would not have objected.

[Dogzilla]

Because pedantry is its own reward.

[Hershele_Ostropoler]

I’m not sure what the appeal of SDMB – or Cecil’s œuvre – is to people who aren’t pedantic.

[Machine_Elf]

@laina_f

Since Indian is a registered member of the SDMB, the question should be either, “Oh, Dopers! Why are we so pedantic?” or “Oh, Dopers! Why are *some of you *so pedantic?”

Since Indian is included in the group referenced in the first sentence, it seems appropriate that he also be included in the group referenced in the second sentence. Thus, the second should be “Oh, Dopers! Why are some of us so pedantic?”

[septimus]

Tiger gotta hunt.
Fly gotta flit.
Doper gotta click Reply and nit-pick nit.

Tiger gotta sleep.
Fly gotta land.
Doper better ETA before he get Banned.

[Little_Nemo]

Don’t hate the pedant. Hate the pedantry.

[Stratocaster]

@Alessan

I disagree. Without the period, the entire sentence can be interpreted as exclamatory, rather than a non-exclamatory sentence containing exclamatory quotations.

Nope, only one ending punctuation mark per sentence. Per this cite:

[quote]
If a question ends with a quotation containing an exclamation mark, the exclamation mark will supersede the question and suffice to end the sentence.[ul][li]Wasn’t it Malcolm X who declared, “Why, that’s the most hypocritical government since the world began!”[/ul][/li][/quote]

(I can do this all day.)

Me too! (N.B.: Optional comma before “too” omitted deliberately.)

[Rachellelogram]

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou pedantio?

[Freddy_the_Pig]

@Alessan

Also, it should be either “Oh, Dopers!” or “O Dopers!”.

The most bizarre variation on this theme was the 1980 Chevy Chase movie, “Oh! Heavenly Dog”. I could never figure out why the exclamation point came after the Oh.

[Vita_Beata]

:sing: Oh, pedantic antics of linguistic semantics!

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Alessan

I disagree. Without the period, the entire sentence can be interpreted as exclamatory, rather than a non-exclamatory sentence containing exclamatory quotations.

(I can do this all day.)

You’ve reminded my of Jon Lajoie’s friend in Everyday Normal Guy (see around 3:20).

@Thudlow_Boink

Example: I know virtually nothing about Doctor Who and have never watched any version of the show. Yet, after reading Alessan’s correction in the Where to start with Dr. Who? thread,I myself have the urge to correct anyone I see spelling it “Dr. Who.”
It’s not always clear where the line between Fighting Ignorance and pedantry lies.

Shouldn’t it be Doctor Whom?

My vote is because pedantry is fun!

[Sunspace]

@Giles

Now that’s pedantry

(Incidentally, I think the concluding full stop can be dropped there, after ’ “O Dopers!” ', since the exclamation mark is already there, but perhaps I’m being over fussy.)

@Alessan

I disagree. Without the period, the entire sentence can be interpreted as exclamatory, rather than a non-exclamatory sentence containing exclamatory quotations.

Isn’t this a matter for your local style guide, though?

@Dogzilla

Because pedantry is its own reward.

ahem

Pedantry is its own re-word.

[Ludovic]

Doperz, y u no speek in lulz?

[Sunspace]

@ludovic

doperz, y u no speek in lulz?

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[Yllaria]

@Nzinga_Seated

No, gotta. Pedants truly can’t help themselves.

Not quite ‘my post is my cite’, but waaaay too close.