Pedant Alert

[SJN-Fox]

You didn't need to, the thread is about bad grammar.

No, the thread refers to pedants. It is the article that refers to bad grammar.

 

[City Fan]

No, the thread refers to pedants. It is the article that refers to bad grammar.

Exactamundo.

 

[Chuck T Masala]

We have a whole generation of sms text speakers stored up that may change our language forever...innit.

 

[Hector]

I find the sign "Family Butcher" over meat emporia most misleading.

 

[Dour]

I find the sign "Family Butcher" over meat emporia most misleading.

But if you just have butcher, you're left with the questions, 'Butcher than who?' and 'Who is the butchest?'

 

[Macky]

No, the thread refers to pedants. It is the article that refers to bad grammar.

No, just to be pedantic, the thread is alerting us to an article about grammar pedants.

Be humble and stand corrected.

 

[Macky]

Exactamundo.

Exactamundo??? Why didn't you respond with that reply then? :icon_lol:

You only thought of it when SJN did and even then it was wrong.

 

[OldGit]

I find the sign "Family Butcher" over meat emporia most misleading.

Especially the one that used to be in Nottingham that was owned by a Mr Herod

 

[SJN-Fox]

No, just to be pedantic, the thread is alerting us to an article about grammar pedants.

Be humble and stand corrected.

OK then, the title of the thread refers to pedants. I sort of crouch half corrected.

 

[DesertFox]

One slightly pedantic point - this is a dull thread!

 

[FIF]

Thought it was about child porn.

 

[Macky]

Thought it was about child porn.

:icon_conf What?

 

[Real Sharapova]

:icon_conf What?

Pedant sort of like paedophile?

 

[From Gradel to Grave]

Pedant sort of like paedophile?

He'd better be careful getting confused like that. I can just see him going to buy some swimwear and getting paedos by mistake.

God knows what chaos will ensue.

 

[Real Sharapova]

He'd better be careful getting confused like that. I can just see him going to buy some swimwear and getting paedos by mistake.

God knows what chaos will ensue.

Reminds me of a Sun inspired " lynch a paedophile and win a Mini Metro " scare a few years back when some loonies ( in Cardiff I think ) attacked a flat on their estate where a doctor lived. It transpired the illiterate sods had assumed a paediatrician was the same as a paedophile.

 

[Chuck T Masala]

Reminds me of a Sun inspired " lynch a paedophile and win a Mini Metro " scare a few years back when some loonies ( in Cardiff I think ) attacked a flat on their estate where a doctor lived. It transpired the illiterate sods had assumed a paediatrician was the same as a paedophile.

Ah you mean rather than a chap who installs or fixes paediats?

 

[Macky]

Pedant sort of like paedophile?

Oh right, in that they both begin with a 'P'?
Okaaaaaay, obvious really I s'pose

 

[From Gradel to Grave]

Oh right, in that they both begin with a 'P'?
Okaaaaaay, obvious really I s'pose

:icon_roll Pedant :icon_wink

 

[Dour]

Reminds me of a Sun inspired " lynch a paedophile and win a Mini Metro " scare a few years back when some loonies ( in Cardiff I think ) attacked a flat on their estate where a doctor lived. It transpired the illiterate sods had assumed a paediatrician was the same as a paedophile.

Portsmouth. Unsurprisingly.

 

[Jeff]

Portsmouth. Unsurprisingly.

It was Newport.

It's a good example of the way things get distorted and exaggerated by the media.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4719364.stm