Pedantry Central

[HighPeakFox]

As suggested by the fine @murphy, a place to let off steam about inaccurate nonsense without getting called a Nazi. @Gerbold, our new home from home... 

 

Pacific / specific. FFS!

[Voll Blau]

"Fake News". The orange cvnt's constant misuse of that term is the fvcking scourge of our times.

[HighPeakFox]

9 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

"Fake News". The orange cvnt's constant misuse of that term is the fvcking scourge of our times.

Every time someone like him suggests such a thing, he's actually telling you what he's doing. 

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

"Skellington". What kind of adult thinks this is a word? Fvcking idiots.

[Babylon]

24 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Pacific / specific. FFS!

How do people get this wrong, it blows my mind.

[Voll Blau]

Oh yeah, people saying "slander" when they mean "libel" in relation to stuff written on the internet.

[jammy_c]

There their they're

[leicsmac]

3 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

Oh yeah, people saying "slander" when they mean "libel" in relation to stuff written on the internet.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsvHaRGtZXE

 

Everyone's favourite editor had it right.

Edited 22 June 2018 by leicsmac

[Brooksy]

Could care less

[Finnegan]

18 minutes ago, Babylon said:

How do people get this wrong, it blows my mind.

 

Because they're from Ibstock. 

[David Guiza]

So many but those that spring to mind are:-

 

'Straight the way'

People misusing the word literally.

Also, one that is acceptable but still bothers me is when people spell 'swap' as 'swop'.  

[HighPeakFox]

Linguistic assumptions, such as 'we all know that etc etc etc' - bloody Lawrenson did it the other night.

 

No we fooking don't, speak for yourself only and don't assume we all MUST agree with you.

[Brooksy]

Loose/Lose - How people get those wrong is beyond me

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Reminds me of that episode of Dave Gorman's Modern Life Is Good-ish where he was taking the piss out of people who thought 'a scapegoat' was 'an escape goat', and 'dog eat dog world' was 'doggy dog world'. 

[leicsmac]

Just now, HighPeakFox said:

Linguistic assumptions, such as 'we all know that etc etc etc' - bloody Lawrenson did it the other night.

 

No we fooking don't, speak for yourself only and don't assume we all MUST agree with you.

Related to this, dressing up highly subjective opinion as fact in words, even unintentionally.

 

Flipping a coin and having it come down heads, tails or edge is a fact.

Who is better out of Messi and Ronaldo is subjective opinion.

 

Learn the language to state them differently please.

[Finnegan]

Oh and, Americans... 

 

 

[Bellend Sebastian]

Peadophiles still crop up as a concern on here a surprising amount in the autocorrect era

[Strokes]

16 minutes ago, Brooksy said:

Loose/Lose - How people get those wrong is beyond me

Yeah i know bunch of loosers.

[Finnegan]

4 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Peadophiles still crop up as a concern on here a surprising amount in the autocorrect era

 

I'm a peadophobe. ****ing hate the little green bastards. 

[HighPeakFox]

Anyone that can't spell Mehrez proper.

[shen]

4 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Anyone who can't spell Mehrez properly.

[HighPeakFox]

4 minutes ago, shen said:

Love it that you left Mehrez alone! I really really hope you corrected my deliberate errors in irony...

[Jon the Hat]

People putting "Central" after everything.

[shen]

Just now, HighPeakFox said:

Love it that you left Mehrez alone! I really really hope you corrected my deliberate errors in irony...

I thought that was how one spells Ryed Mehrez

[shen]

Just now, Jon the Hat said:

People putting "Central" after everything.

Everything central? What is that supposed to be?