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underfoot

17th May 2010, 09:09 PM

I'de like to start a thread for pedants and nitpickers.

Groggy

17th May 2010, 09:11 PM

Ok, great idea!

BTW, "I'de" doesn't have an 'e' on the end. :cl:

underfoot

17th May 2010, 09:17 PM

damm!

Groggy

17th May 2010, 09:31 PM

Dam²

springwater

17th May 2010, 09:48 PM

I'de like to start a thread for pedants and nitpickers.

Starting a thread with "I'de like to start a thread" is non-sense therefore not right.
I'm qualified to know :cool:

Gingermick

17th May 2010, 10:02 PM

BTW, "I'de" doesn't have an 'e' on the end. :cl:

Well I would like to post a response saying "Damn fantastic reply Groggy"

pugwash

17th May 2010, 10:21 PM

I'm not a pedant or a nitpicker. Can I still comment?

springwater

17th May 2010, 10:44 PM

I'm not a pedant or a nitpicker. Can I still comment?

"I'm not a pedant or a nitpicker" is a comment. Unless anything happened to you after your comment was made affecting your ability to comment again then you can still comment, even in your belief that you say your not a pedant or a nitpicker, words are cheap and the proof's in the pudding :think:

jimbur

17th May 2010, 11:12 PM

"I'm not a pedant or a nitpicker" is a comment. Unless anything happened to you after your comment was made effecting your ability to comment again then you can still comment, even in your belief that you say your not a pedant or a nitpicker, words are cheap and the proofs in the pudding :think:

Oops shouldn't it be affecting not effecting lol:D
Cheers,
Jim

tea lady

17th May 2010, 11:20 PM

"I'm not a pedant or a nitpicker" is a comment. Unless anything happened to you after your comment was made effecting your ability to comment again then you can still comment, even in your belief that you say your not a pedant or a nitpicker, words are cheap and the proofs in the pudding :think:Doesn't "proof's" need an apostrophe? And 'Your" is supposed to be "you're". That one REALLY DRIVES ME NUTS!:(( :rolleyes::D

chrisb691

17th May 2010, 11:20 PM

I thought a pedant was a male school teacher. So I can't see the relevance to 'nitpickers'.

Skew ChiDAMN!!

18th May 2010, 12:20 AM

Isn't a pedant an insect on a bicycle?

Never mind... back to my corner. :duck:

tea lady

18th May 2010, 12:29 AM

Isn't a pedant an insect on a bicycle?

Never mind... back to my corner. :duck::oo: Skew? Skew? Is that you? Where've ya beeeeeeeeeeeeeeen! :bighug:

Wongdai

18th May 2010, 12:41 AM

Skew, you should never put a space after an elipsis.

artme

18th May 2010, 07:44 AM

"I'm not a pedant or a nitpicker" is a comment. :think:

I hate to be pedantic but that is not a comment, it's a statement.

Chesand

18th May 2010, 08:32 AM

Doesn't "proof's" need an apostrophe? And 'Your" is supposed to be "you're". That one REALLY DRIVES ME NUTS!:(( :rolleyes::D

I am with TL on this one. Also the incorrect use of "I" and "me"

jmk89

18th May 2010, 08:35 AM

I hate to be pedantic but that is not a comment, it's a statement.

Every comment is a statement (even if expressed as a question), although the converse is not true. That is, the former is a subset of the latter.

jmk89

18th May 2010, 08:37 AM

"I'm not a pedant or a nitpicker" is a comment. Unless anything happened to you after your comment was made affecting your ability to comment again then you can still comment, even in your belief that you say your're not a pedant or a nitpicker, words are cheap and the proof's in the pudding :think:

Very well, I'll bite. :D
You appear to have been listening to too much football commentary. The proof isn't in the pudding, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

woodnut

18th May 2010, 08:45 AM

Whats this hypothetical pudding an do it have a recipe?

Cliff Rogers

18th May 2010, 08:56 AM

All I want to know is why? :?

Black Ned

18th May 2010, 09:38 AM

Why? do you ask why?

AlexS

18th May 2010, 10:24 AM

I'm not a pedant or a nitpicker. Can I still comment?
I think you meant "May I still comment?".

jimbur

18th May 2010, 11:09 AM

Very well, I'll bite. :D
You appear to have been listening to too much football commentary. The proof isn't in the pudding, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

The proof could be in the pudding if a spy were trying to smuggle it out:D

Geoff Dean

18th May 2010, 11:19 AM

Doesn't "proof's" need an apostrophe? And 'Your" is supposed to be "you're". That one REALLY DRIVES ME NUTS!:(( :rolleyes::D

:oo: TL has nuts? :oo:

Frank&Earnest

18th May 2010, 11:29 AM

I don't need this thread. I have the whole forum to express my skill. :D

Gingermick

18th May 2010, 12:13 PM

Doesn't "proof's" need an apostrophe? And 'Your" is supposed to be "you're". That one REALLY DRIVES ME NUTS!:(( :rolleyes::D

your is supposed to be you're only when it's a contraction of you are. Your is belonging to you, different meaning same sounds homophone or homonym, I got in trouble for pointing one out immediately after joining here. A bloke was talking about a salt cellar and asked about a salt seller, so I said he could sell it in hesian bags. and got roundly booed

Woodwould

18th May 2010, 12:32 PM

Doesn't "proof's" need an apostrophe?
<link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CBob%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><style>  </style> "proof's" already has an apostrophe!

mic-d

18th May 2010, 12:53 PM

I don't need this thread. I have the whole forum to express my skill. :D

Now that is a worthy reply.:D

<link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CBob%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><style>  </style> "proof's" already has an apostrophe!

Lucky the question wasn't <delete -="" oops="" did="" i="" say="" that="" out="" loud="">(delete -oops did I say that out aloud)

cheers
Michael</delete>

jimbur

18th May 2010, 01:51 PM

your is supposed to be you're only when it's a contraction of you are. Your is belonging to you, different meaning same sounds homophone or homonym, I got in trouble for pointing one out immediately after joining here. A bloke was talking about a salt cellar and asked about a salt seller, so I said he could sell it in hesian bags. and got roundly booed

Hard to win in this thread Mick - it should be hessian or even Hessian:D

Gingermick

18th May 2010, 02:09 PM

maybe that's why it didn't go down well with Peter

Sebastiaan56

18th May 2010, 02:44 PM

I thought we could at least generate more than one or two line responses in this thread.

Cliff Rogers

18th May 2010, 03:41 PM

Thread? :?

chrisb691

18th May 2010, 04:58 PM

I thought we could at least generate more than one or two line responses in this thread.

Now you're Nitpicking. :D

underfoot

18th May 2010, 05:24 PM

I thought we could at least generate more than one or two line responses in this thread.
Well,
you've
only
responded
with
one
line.

Greg Ward

18th May 2010, 05:26 PM

Is that what they do with school kids?

And hasn't picknicking something to do with tools?

This is confuseing

Gfreg

tea lady

18th May 2010, 05:43 PM

I am with TL on this one. Also the incorrect use of "I" and "me":? ......drives I nuts? :think:

:oo: TL has nuts? :oo:Only the ones I am driven too.


"proof's" already has an apostrophe!That one does. But the other one didn't.:D

tea lady

18th May 2010, 05:45 PM

I thought we could at least generate more than one or two line responses in this thread.

We may be pedants and nitpickers, but we are succinct! :p

Cliff Rogers

18th May 2010, 06:09 PM

That sucs

Chesand

18th May 2010, 06:37 PM

TL I wasn't suggesting that you had used "me" incorrectly in the "I" and "me" comment (or was it a statement)

woodnut

18th May 2010, 07:05 PM

Eye thort Eye wood help youse lot.

Apostrophes and How to Use Them (http://uob-community.ballarat.edu.au/~iwright/apostrophes/)

artme

18th May 2010, 07:43 PM

Remember the Holden ad years ago?

"When your hot your hot" ungrammaticl drivel.

When I spoke to the local holden dealer he told me that it must be OK because the company had approved it! :o:doh:

tea lady

18th May 2010, 08:58 PM

:rolleyes: So any grammar questions, just ask a Holden exec.:D

springwater

18th May 2010, 09:50 PM

Very well, I'll bite. :D
You appear to have been listening to too much football commentary. The proof isn't in the pudding, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

You appear to be wrong. Legends like me had no need to listen to commentary...they say my long arms reached up like giant testicles :D

tea lady

19th May 2010, 12:35 AM

You appear to be wrong. Legends like me had no need to listen to commentary...they say my long arms reached up like giant testicles :D:CI'm gonna have bad dreams now.:saddest:

:D

Gingermick

19th May 2010, 08:07 AM

did you dream of giant reaching testicles? But we all know testicles can't reach. It's a terrible metaphor.

Christopha

19th May 2010, 08:36 AM

Metaphor? Hell mate I was married to a phor, then a five an now I am hunting a six...

Cliff Rogers

19th May 2010, 08:46 AM

Christopha? Who the phuc is Christopha? :?

Do you have a note from yer mum for being gone so long?

artme

19th May 2010, 11:03 AM

:rolleyes: So any grammar questions, just ask a Holden exec.:D

... and may the Lord have mercy on our souls!:C

artme

19th May 2010, 11:06 AM

did you dream of giant reaching testicles? But we all know testicles can't reach. It's a terrible metaphor.

maybe they belonged to an octopod.:wink:

jimbur

19th May 2010, 01:09 PM

maybe they belonged to an octopod.:wink:

Naw, it's got to come from a football commentary:D

Chesand

19th May 2010, 02:03 PM

Naw, it's got to come from a football commentary:D

It is credited to Captain Blood, Jack Dyer, who was renowned for mangling the English language

Ashore

19th May 2010, 03:27 PM

I'de like to start a thread for pedants and nitpickers.
Actually by posting this you already have started a thread for pedants and nitpickers. It would have been better to say, "I'm starting a thread for pedants and nitpickers."

I thought a pedant was a male school teacher. So I can't see the relevance to 'nitpickers'.
You sure it's not a priest at a seminary, ie. in training to get the rest added :rolleyes:

jimbur

19th May 2010, 05:51 PM

There's no n in pederast:D
Cheers,
Jim

underfoot

19th May 2010, 06:03 PM

"I'm starting a thread for pedants and nitpickers."

but I've already started one :cool:

jimbur

19th May 2010, 06:08 PM

but I've already started one :cool:

LMAO :2tsup::2tsup::2tsup:

RedShirtGuy

19th May 2010, 06:31 PM

Critiquers are prone to nitpicking,
But rarely nitpick while picnicking.
So on a field day,
They picnic and play,
And forgo their nitpick critiquing.

artme

19th May 2010, 06:57 PM

For Fed, prized nitpicker.

I put a post in the photography section a bou a photo I din't manage to take. Got deleted for bein "off topic". :?

tea lady

19th May 2010, 07:06 PM

For Fed, prized nitpicker.

I put a post in the photography section a bou a photo I din't manage to take. Got deleted for bein "off topic". :?:rofl:

There are quite a few typos in there that should keep us going all night.:D

Cliff Rogers

19th May 2010, 08:01 PM

but I've already started one :cool:
One what?

Cliff Rogers

19th May 2010, 08:03 PM

For Fed, prized nitpicker.

I put a post in the photography section a bou a photo I din't manage to take. Got deleted for bein "off topic". :?
Why would you take a pic of a topic anyway? :?

artme

19th May 2010, 08:30 PM

:rofl:

There are quite a few typos in there that should keep us going all night.:D

Nicely spotted TL. Got to keep the thread going!

artme

19th May 2010, 08:32 PM

Why would you take a pic of a topic anyway? :?

Don'tcha wanna know what the Topic was?

labr@

19th May 2010, 08:45 PM

Don'tcha wanna know what the Topic was?

You must have short term memory loss - you already told us it was "Off" :D

funkychicken

19th May 2010, 08:51 PM

Don'tcha wanna know what the Topic was?

The correct grammar would be, "Do you not want to know what the topic was?"

weisyboy

19th May 2010, 09:07 PM

wats all this about n why wasnt i told, everyone knows im teh bestest at making typing good and proper round these parts.

ill fix all yous guys spelling and gramar right up in no time. just sit back and learn from the master.

me do ingis good now.:D

funkychicken

19th May 2010, 09:14 PM

springwater

19th May 2010, 09:15 PM

For Fed, prized nitpicker.

I put a post in the photography section a bou a photo I din't manage to take. Got deleted for bein "off topic". :?

Don't worry artme it wasn't in vain you got me HL&S if that's any consolation. Me puta's running real slow at the mo :whatonearth: so I waited for your pic to load until I noticed the "caption" below the empty mustard coloured space. I think I may have called you a bustard (x2) at the time but that got erased too :D

Bloody hell, gone OT again :-

springwater

19th May 2010, 09:25 PM

funkychicken

19th May 2010, 09:48 PM

:offtopic: It's not about typo's weisy, it's about pedants and nitpickers :rolleyes:

Capital "W" in Weisy as it's a proper name

Big Shed

19th May 2010, 09:54 PM

:offtopic: It's not about typo's weisy, it's about pedants and nitpickers :rolleyes:

What's with the apostrophe, plural of typo is typos:;

jimbur

19th May 2010, 10:04 PM

Oh my stars. All the typos... *faint*

don't you mean feint:U

NCArcher

19th May 2010, 10:21 PM

What's with the apostrophe, plural of typo is typos:;
I believe SW was refering to the weisy that belongs to a particular typo. :cool:

Cliff Rogers

19th May 2010, 10:30 PM

Not was, is.

springwater

19th May 2010, 10:36 PM

What's with the apostrophe, plural of typo is typos:;

Where does one seek reference to when and where one puts ones's apostrophe :rolleyes:

So what's the plural of Mykonos then :?

jaguarrh

19th May 2010, 11:24 PM

There is no plural of Mykonos, it is an island, there is only one.
:no:

Ashore

19th May 2010, 11:27 PM

Where does one seek reference to when and where one puts ones's apostrophe
Google :doh:

Cliff Rogers

19th May 2010, 11:40 PM

So what's the plural of Mykonos then :?
Mykonii. :2tsup:

Cliff Rogers

19th May 2010, 11:43 PM

Where does one seek reference to when and where one puts ones's apostrophe :rolleyes:
Sharon Colon's Apostrophe Errors Page (http://www.sharoncolon.com/index.htm)
Purdue OWL (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/621/01/)
Capital Letters - apostrophes 101, how to use the apostrophe properly (http://www.capital-letters.com.au/apostrophes_101.html)

Big Shed

19th May 2010, 11:46 PM

Do you have a link for "there, their and they're" as well.

Cliff Rogers

19th May 2010, 11:50 PM

Do you have a link for "there, their and they're" as well.
No wuckers. :2tsup:

YouTube - Confused Words: THEY'RE, THERE, THEIR

How to Use There, Their and They're - wikiHow (http://www.wikihow.com/Use-There,-Their-and-They%27re)

& now to test what you have learned...
They're/their/there (http://www.better-english.com/easier/theyre.htm)

:D

Cliff Rogers

19th May 2010, 11:52 PM

And before you ask... :p

How to Use You're and Your - wikiHow (http://www.wikihow.com/Use-You%27re-and-Your)

Your vs You're - e Learn English Language (http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/difficulties/youryoure.html)

your/you’re (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/your.html)

Cliff Rogers

19th May 2010, 11:55 PM

What the hell... let/lets/lettuce give the cat another canary.... :D

Common Mistakes and Confusing Words in English - Learn English Mistakes (http://www.learnenglish.de/mistakes/CommonMistakes.htm)

and here are a few more....

Common Errors in English Usage (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html)

Frank&Earnest

20th May 2010, 12:04 AM

Why would you take a pic of a topic anyway? :?

He just wanted the "to".

Frank&Earnest

20th May 2010, 12:10 AM

Where does one seek reference to when and where one puts ones's apostrophe :rolleyes:

It is sometimes dangerous to ask where to put something.

pugwash

20th May 2010, 01:14 AM

Capital "W" in Weisy as it's a proper name

No it's not! Peter or David are proper names. "Weisy" sounds decidedly improper to me.

Gingermick

20th May 2010, 08:08 AM

Where does one seek reference to when and where one puts ones's apostrophe

someone posted it (http://www.woodworkforums.com/f43/pedants-nitpickers-117816/index3.html#post1153954) earlier. ones's's's's's apostrophes I think you meant

jimbur

20th May 2010, 09:41 AM

Sharon Colon's Apostrophe Errors Page (http://www.sharoncolon.com/index.htm)

Don't be vulgar, I'm not looking up anyone's colon:oo:

Cliff Rogers

20th May 2010, 10:08 AM

You missed the other link that I posted.... it has been deleted. :D

Big Shed

20th May 2010, 01:56 PM

You missed the other link that I posted.... it has been deleted. :D

As will others of the same ilk.

Skew ChiDAMN!!

20th May 2010, 02:09 PM

As will others of the same ilk.

Some things just don't change, no matter how long one stays away... :D

Cliff Rogers

20th May 2010, 02:11 PM

Yup. :D

tea lady

20th May 2010, 02:18 PM

As will others of the same ilk.

Some things just don't change, no matter how long one stays away... :D

Ve vill heff no "ilk"s here! :ninja: (is that mixing my metaphors? :think: )

artme

20th May 2010, 03:09 PM

Ve vill heff no "ilk"s here! :ninja: (is that mixing my metaphors? :think: )

Why? Do they smell?

funkychicken

20th May 2010, 07:33 PM

No it's not! Peter or David are proper names. "Weisy" sounds decidedly improper to me.

Carl Weiss is his name, Weisy is a shortening, or "nickname." You wouldn't spell without a capital would you?

Groggy

20th May 2010, 08:02 PM

You wouldn't spell without a capital would you? - nup, it doesn't work for me. :no:

funkychicken

20th May 2010, 10:59 PM

Geez Grog, you don't have to be so pedantic:~

Ashore

20th May 2010, 11:10 PM

Geez Grog, you don't have to be so pedantic:~
Geez , is that a shortened version of geezer , implying that Grog ( which I take is a shortened version of Groggy ) is a geezer . :o

Gingermick

21st May 2010, 08:12 AM

different G sound there, I thought geez was short for Jesus Christ almighty.