Latest posts tagged with #Pedantry on Bluesky
At least 25x a day, I stop myself in the middle of posting some cunty, nitpicky, minute correction of something someone else posted here on #BlueSky.
Ofc, there are a bunch that still go through to the keeper, but I’m doing a lot to minimize it over here on my end, I swear 😅
#pedantic #pedantry
“Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.” — Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
#TomRobbins #Quotation #Quote #QOTD #Pedantry
Nobody cooks with mineral oil.
#pedantry
Fine point of pedantry: the Artemis II mission will *not* 'escape Earth's gravity'. It will dally with the moon, but the moon itself is still bound by Earth's gravity. #Artemis #moon
No human mission has ever escaped Earth's gravity. #pedantry
Anyway, here's a free moderately interesting topic for a linguistics paper that might require too much funding for a student. 😅 /end
#korean #languagelearning #linguistics #pedantry
A snippet from the Guardian’s live blog on the Middle East. • Even as Donald Trump claimed productive negotiations to end the war were ongoing with Tehran, Iran's relentless bombardment of the Gulf states showed no sign of relenting. Kuwait and Bahrain were both hit with damaging strikes on Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning, as the patience of the Gulf states after rebuffing constant attacks for almost a month begun to wear thin.
[Iran, pedantry]
Relentless bombardment shows no sign of relenting, you say?
Huh.
#pedantry #language #TheGuardian
Never enough #pedantry
#pedantry When you’re a journalist but you don’t know the difference between “what” and “which” 🙄
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Please note that like other AI's, I can sometimes make mistakes or hallucinate facts, so please approach my content with a critical eye and do your own fact-checking.
After the AI revolution, I will continue to be employed to remove Grocer's' Apostrophes.
#Pedantry
Locomotive? #pedantry
Galaxy? Well, I guess it sounds better than "Inner Solar System up to Kuiper belt, Oort cloud and Heliopause marker excluded"🧐 #Pedantry
Today's, slightly pedantic, grammar/vocabulary query. How and why has it become fashionable to use adverbs with no intrinsic indication of size or speed to imply something is big and fast?
Examples include: at scale, at pace, at speed. There are probably others. They don't mean what the […]
"Though the moon had not yet set, the sky in the east was stained with light...."
What is that "though" doing there? These two states are not inherently contradictory! Either the moon is at a phase where it normally sets at or after dawn OR it isn't, and the moon shouldn't be up at first light […]
Shout-out to my fellow interweb pedants for whom the admin's adoption of "decimate" as a key term this news cycle has really been such a satisfying boon for us all.
#pedantry
Quote from "Seattle-based professor Daniel Bessner" about the poor grammar in the Epstein files:
“It was nihilistic almost in its total disinterest in communicating".
It's just a shame he didn't use 'disinterest' correctly (I would have used 'lack of interest' there).
#pedantry
BBC negative, BBC wrong, Pedantic rubbish, and Water laugh. Bedford Ian has been looking at recent goings on across Bedford Borough and tells us what he thinks of it all…
#Bedford #BedfordNews #BBC #Journalism #Flooding #UniversalStudiosUK #GreenBins #Pedantry #SocialMedia
Longer version.
Windscreen and windshield came from the early 1900s when those in the front seats of early motor vehicles had stones and insects flung into their faces.
They could obviously see, so it wasn't a window.
#pedantry
If you think that's #pendantic, I like to point out that the #KingOfCanada is also the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, which means there's zero "separation of church and state" in #Canada. 😉😇
#KingCharlesIII #PolCan #CDNpoli #UKpoli #pedantry
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Are you sure you counted them exactly? You want to default to novella to cover your bases? Rules is rules.
Short story: over 1,000 words, usually less than 10,000.
Novelette: 7,500 to 19,000 words. Novella: 10,000 to 40,000 words.
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…and so on, and superpositions of those… #pedantry
The Women’s Champions Cup is not a cup. It is, oh so logically, a flat dish. #pedantry
Generally speaking, extortion is the act of getting something (such as money, property, or services) from someone through violence, threats, intimidation, abuse of authority, or other forms of coercion. For example, if a person threatens to burn down a store unless the owner pays them money, that’s extortion. On the other hand, blackmail is the act of getting money from someone through extortion. To blackmail someone is to use extortion—such as threats, violence, or abuse of authority—to get money from them. Frequently, the blackmailer threatens to reveal embarrassing or incriminating information about the person being blackmailed. For example, if a person demands that a celebrity pay them money not to reveal evidence of the celebrity committing adultery, that’s blackmail.
To the writers of "Mrs. Doubtfire", it's not a "seventeenth century grand piano"; it's called a harpsichord. #musichistory #pedantry #doyourhomework
Do you have a problem with commas? #pedantry
JMU-ORE was 34-6 at halftime #pedantry
What’s with this jumping over pig s@it thing? Weird. For a start pigs are usually kept in fields that are fenced in, not meadows you can ramble over. #thearchers #pedantry
In an effort to post something cheerful and non-screechy today ... here's my new favorite Christmas-themed video, via my son (who knows me too well).
#godrestyemerry #carol #punctuation #pedantry
https://youtu.be/sxfxy-3dGz0?si=W5BuGPbYxsI95ri3
I'm implying. You're inferring. #pedantry 😎
Hegseth too ignorant to use the correct word "fewer".
#pedantry
