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Hypothetical : ME/HORSE clash
Bainn:
Harmony, suggest Thesauri at dawn to "MinTrav" to settle this matter of honour.
Harmony26:
--- Quote from: Bainn on August 12, 2009, 21:13:19 PM ---
Harmony, suggest Thesauri at dawn to "MinTrav" to settle this matter of honour.
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LOL
Claw75:
--- Quote from: Harmony26 on August 12, 2009, 21:00:58 PM ---
--- Quote from: MintTrav on August 12, 2009, 20:57:17 PM ---
--- Quote from: Harmony26 on August 12, 2009, 20:43:51 PM ---
I see your point, Duke, but it is not quite so simple as that..."Pedantry" is the act of obsessively insisting on the correct usage of something... you can BE pedentary about something.
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Well I"ve never heard of its use in that manner, and I am quite a pedant. Even if you are right, which I doubt, the use of pedantic in the sentence you queried would still be correct.
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Fair enough. Your view and I respect that. But
I am not wrong - so do not doubt me. You can also use the word "pedantry" in that same sentence.
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Not with the words "to be" in front of it though, and you didn"t highlight those. Damn I feel like a pedant now!
Bainn:
--- Quote from: Bainn on August 12, 2009, 19:29:25 PM ---
--- Quote from: MintTrav on August 12, 2009, 18:53:56 PM ---
--- Quote from: Harmony26 on August 12, 2009, 17:38:08 PM ---
--- Quote from: MintTrav on August 12, 2009, 16:35:39 PM ---
--- Quote from: Bainn on August 12, 2009, 16:19:23 PM ---
Sigh.
An "Apostrophe", not a "Comma".
You see, standards ARE slipping.
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It is an apostrophe, not a comma, but both are incorrect. PA"s is possessive, as in my PA"s typing error.
PAs is simply a plural. If you wish to be pedantic (and who doesn"t?), you could argue for abbreviation points after the P and the A, but the more informal PA is in common usage and reads better.
--- Quote from: Claw75 on August 12, 2009, 16:18:08 PM ---
worst grammar-correcting post ever ;D
(is my hyphen ok there?)
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Yes
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Isn"t the correct word to use here "pedantry"?
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Em..........no!
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Do you really mean "Em" -
"An em is a unit of measurement in the field of typography, equal to the point size of the current font."
Or did you mean "Erm" ? ?
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MinTrav, you have not answered my query.
Harmony26:
--- Quote from: Claw75 on August 12, 2009, 22:03:51 PM ---
--- Quote from: Harmony26 on August 12, 2009, 21:00:58 PM ---
--- Quote from: MintTrav on August 12, 2009, 20:57:17 PM ---
--- Quote from: Harmony26 on August 12, 2009, 20:43:51 PM ---
I see your point, Duke, but it is not quite so simple as that..."Pedantry" is the act of obsessively insisting on the correct usage of something... you can BE pedentary about something.
--- End quote ---
Well I"ve never heard of its use in that manner, and I am quite a pedant. Even if you are right, which I doubt, the use of pedantic in the sentence you queried would still be correct.
--- End quote ---
Fair enough. Your view and I respect that. But
I am not wrong - so do not doubt me. You can also use the word "pedantry" in that same sentence.
--- End quote ---
Not with the words "to be" in front of it though, and you didn"t highlight those. Damn I feel like a pedant now!
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LOL Read the thread. You can "be pedantry" therefore you can say "if you want to be pedantry".
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