Pedants and Nitpickers

**Chesand** · 18th May 2010, 08:32 AM

Originally Posted by tea lady

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

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

**jmk89** · 18th May 2010, 08:35 AM

Originally Posted by artme

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

Originally Posted by springwater

"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

Very well, I'll bite.

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

Originally Posted by pugwash

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

Originally Posted by jmk89

Very well, I'll bite.

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

**Geoff Dean** · 18th May 2010, 11:19 AM

Originally Posted by tea lady

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

TL has nuts?

**Frank&Earnest** · 18th May 2010, 11:29 AM

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

**Gingermick** · 18th May 2010, 12:13 PM

Originally Posted by tea lady

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

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

Originally Posted by tea lady

Doesn't "proof's" need an apostrophe?

"proof's" already has an apostrophe!

**mic-d** · 18th May 2010, 12:53 PM

Originally Posted by Frank&Earnest

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

Now that is a worthy reply.

Originally Posted by Woodwould

"proof's" already has an apostrophe!

Lucky the question wasn't (delete -oops did I say that out aloud)

cheers
Michael

**jimbur** · 18th May 2010, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by Gingermick

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

**Gingermick** · 18th May 2010, 02:09 PM

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

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