In light of a recent comment on my signature I deceided to open this thread.
So How pedantic are you? Me myself I can be at times and I am awful in chat for picking on people for mis spellings etc, but yee all know I love yee feckers and I never mean any harm in it.
Titan,
For my part, I am a fecker for peoples mispellings including my own! Ask any member of the Brekkie Club, they will tell you. But its all harmless fun
In texts and chat people should be forgiven, as it is usually spelled quickly and is more likely to be a type-o. But there is a place i pass regularly with a big sign above the door ending in Center, I often feel like stopping in and asking them to change it to the correct Centre. Drives me nuts.
Ah, the reason for this thread's existence owns up. Guilty!! :-o
I am exceedingly full of shit where the use of language, punctuation and spelling is concerned, but while I am strict on myself, I tend to overlook others' mistakes in texts, forum posts etc. It's casual communication, not a piece submitted to me for critting. And I do manage to remember that most of the time. :cheers:
To give you an idea of quite how bad I am, though, there are two banners up on Buttercrane Shopping Centre, which are visible when you stop at the traffic light coming into Newry from Dundalk. One has an apostrophe where there should be none. The other doesn't have one where there should be one. I take a different route into Newry to avoid seeing these two banners.
Bearing that in mind, I think I'm pretty good with not being all anal about others' writing! But you wouldn't receive a text from me which is not fully written out, spelling and punctuation as correct as possible.
In my defence, writing is my job, and I'm sure anyone doing something relating to their job would be pedantic about it. Wouldn't they? Please tell me they would...
Boo.
(Now I will, as always, re-read the entry, add emoticons, change a word here, a letter there, consider if there's repetition I can avoid by using a synonym, finally post the entry, re-read it and possibly click 'edit' in a blind panic because I overlooked something.)
Pedantic ... some people would describe it as being Anal... but I do agree that on signs, documents, & in newspapers there is no excuse for mis-spelling or for using American spellings.
I am still a little old fashioned so tend not to abbreviate too much in text or chat, but in these areas it is acceptable & in chat I have been know to have the odd dsylectic finger or two.
Alan... can I just point out a very small...
Actually, never mind.
*mutters to self* thou shalt switch thine inner editor off when not working, thou shalt switch thine inner editor off when not working... :grin:
Imagine, a session with Boo:
"Oh my god, I'm coming, I'm coming!"
Boo: "Actually, that should be 'I'm about to come, I'm about to come'. Continuous tense indicates an action that is mff mhmph..."
"Honey, I'm not normally into bondage, but for both of our sakes, keep that gag in your mouth."
Boo :laughabove:
Quote by user=BullAndBoo Alan... can I just point out a very small... Actually, never mind. *mutters to self* thou shalt switch thine inner editor off when not working, thou shalt switch thine inner editor off when not working... :grin: Imagine, a session with Boo: "Oh my god, I'm coming, I'm coming!" Boo: "Actually, that should be 'I'm about to come, I'm about to come'. Continuous tense indicates an action that is mff mhmph..." "Honey, I'm not normally into bondage, but for both of our sakes, keep that gag in your mouth." Boo :laughabove:
Alan, When you text, your lazy,,,,lol you know what I mean. :taz: Padds
Quote by user=alan-ball Pedantic ... some people would describe it as being Anal... but I do agree that on signs, documents, & in newspapers there is no excuse for mis-spelling or for using American spellings. I am still a little old fashioned so tend not to abbreviate too much in text or chat, but in these areas it is acceptable & in chat I have been know to have the odd dsylectic finger or two.
God Yes, I just remebered text talk in chat drives me cracked. I always use predictive when I write texts myself...ok Let me breath into this paper bag as I calm down.
:crazy:was told last night that i must post in here and confess.......my name is t-bags, and i'm a pedant.:giveup:
I'm probably worse for facts than spelling and stuff, but it's all good......or bad, depending on your perspective.:small-print:
Latina, thanks very much. We must get together someday and edit stuff. :bounce: Goldenknicks, Latina making a mistake with our username is perhaps an example of a form of Muphry's law. That's right, Muphry's law: "If you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written." :small-print: Boo.
Quote by user=BullAndBoo Latina, thanks very much. We must get together someday and edit stuff. :bounce: Goldenknicks, Latina making a mistake with our username is perhaps an example of a form of Muphry's law. That's right, Muphry's law: "If you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written." :small-print: Boo.
Apologies... Padds bends over in shame..... kick me. Rushes off to purchase a machine that assists not only in your spelling, But as an audible device, helps you with pronunciation!!!
Quote by user=sexylatina Padds, it's actually "per se", not "per say" Bullboo - I think I love you. :) I have found my mirror image :rose:
rank amateurs. a true "pedant's pedant" like myself thinks nothing of engaging kilkenny county council in lengthy, tedious and ultimately fruitless correspondence regarding the discrepancy between how they operate their car-tax refund scheme in practice and how it ought to be operated according to their own literature. delay to refund: 5 months
I thought this quote was relevant to this thread;
Bad spelling can be lethal. For example, the greedy Seriph of Al-Yabi was cursed by a badly-educated deity and for some days everything he touched turned to Glod, which happened to be the name of a small dwarf from a mountain community hundreds of miles away who found himself magically dragged to the kingdom and relentlessly duplicated. Some two thousand Glods later the spell wore off. These days, the people of Al-Yabi are renowned for being remarkably short and bad-tempered.
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Bearing that in mind, I think I'm pretty good with not being all anal about others' writing! But you wouldn't receive a text from me which is not fully written out, spelling and punctuation as correct as possible. 
In my defence, writing is my job, and I'm sure anyone doing something relating to their job would be pedantic about it. Wouldn't they? Please tell me they would...
Boo.
(Now I will, as always, re-read the entry, add emoticons, change a word here, a letter there, consider if there's repetition I can avoid by using a synonym, finally post the entry, re-read it and possibly click 'edit' in a blind panic because I overlooked something.)
Bullboo - I think I love you. :) I have found my mirror image :rose:
