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"Electrocuted" means "died from electric shock"; "electrocuted to death" is redundant. I get very stressed when I see words abbreviated with dots between the letters but not at the end. But the worst thing: People who use spaces before punctuation. 
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Shadow0 posted:I get very stressed when I see words abbreviated with dots between the letters but not at the end. I’m not following
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:shut up nerd
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teen witch posted:I’m not following Like "U.S.A" instead of "U.S.A." or just without the dots like "USA"
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Shadow0 posted:Like "U.S.A" instead of "U.S.A." or just without the dots like "USA" Oh cool now that’s going to bother me. Thanks for the brainworm
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learning enough about grammar and usage and punctuation usually kills the pedant urge. it's more fun to be a meta-pedant and only point out usage errors in someone's rant about usage errors.
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Oct 3, 2022 14:19
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Empty Sandwich posted:learning enough about grammar and usage and punctuation usually kills the pedant urge. lol bascicalyl this
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The toilet paper roll gets put on the spool overhand, not under. Same with paper towels if you have them hanging underneath a cabinet; over, not under. If either of them are under, I will add you to my enemy list 
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You Are A Elf posted:The toilet paper roll gets put on the spool overhand, not under. 
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 How about the people that place the new roll of TP directly on top of the empty roll or on the vanity counter instead of replacing the empty roll?
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I am pedantic, about
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People who get too het up about the use of the passive voice tend to be annoying.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:People who get too het up about the use of the passive voice tend to be annoying. my father was once reviewing a student's college application materials. oddly, they'd included a graded essay. more oddly, it had gotten a bad grade. the bad grade was because every instance of past tense was marked "passive voice." I'd blame Elements of Style but I hope people don't read that piece of poo poo anymore.
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Oct 3, 2022 19:38
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The order of words in a sentence
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Empty Sandwich posted:my father was once reviewing a student's college application materials. oddly, they'd included a graded essay. more oddly, it had gotten a bad grade. In sentences like "If they were here" or "I wish they were here", the verb is not in the past tense, but rather in the subjunctive mood. I think "to be" is like the only verb where this actually makes a difference, but technically it should be "If I/he/she/it were here" rather than "If I/he/she/it was here". I never correct anyone on this, but I do consider it a neat fact! Empty Sandwich posted:learning enough about grammar and usage and punctuation usually kills the pedant urge. A lot of grammar rules people think are rules aren't - like ending sentences with prepositions or starting with conjunctions. There's no Council of English Correctness determining anything; there are merely style guidelines. (Though I think French has an academy that determines what is "correct French".) Language is defined by its usage. "alot" is still wrong though. 
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The opening curly bracket goes under the line with the function's name.
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Zybourne Clock posted:The opening curly bracket goes under the line with the function's name. Ok now you're just trying to start a fight
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Zybourne Clock posted:The opening curly bracket goes under the line with the function's name. you are correct, however, programming pedantry is cheating
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I've never fact-checked myself on whether I'm correct about this one, so maybe I'm the idiot, but very often I see people say things like "I'm a little bias here" as if "bias" is an adjective rather than a noun. I assume it's because, when spoken, it's hard to hear the difference between "bias" and the participle form "biased." But yeah I get hella annoyed when I see it written that way. Also when people spell "lightning" as "lightening." Also when people say "myself" as the objective form of "I" (e.g., "Send a copy of the document to Tina, John, and myself"). Also when people mix up subjective and objective pronouns, but only when they do it on a sophomoric level (e.g., "Send the document to John and I") rather than a lowbrow one (e.g., "It was me"). I could keep going, but I feel like I'm getting a bit pedantic.
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LargeHadron posted:Also when people say "myself" as the objective form of "I" (e.g., "Send a copy of the document to Tina, John, and myself"). I mean, it is an objective form of "I", albeit a situational one.
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Devils Affricate posted:I mean, it is an objective form of "I", albeit a situational one. As a pedant, I appreciate the correction.
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I typed up a long response but it was p boring in English, we've got Garner as the closest thing to a final authority on usage. dude's been writing about usage for decades and has been able to trawl vast swaths of stuff to figure out usage. if you're interested in this stuff, get a copy of Garner's Modern English Usage. (he doesn't just cover American usage; he's become the authority on all the major varieties.)
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An easy way to remember how to spell “a lot” is to say to yourself “there is a lot of space between a and lot”.
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:An easy way to remember how to spell “a lot” is to say to yourself “there is a lot of space between a and lot”. But what about "alittle"? 
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Shadow0 posted:I will always correct "alot" and "i.e." when it is used instead of "e.g." whenever I see it.  https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html?commentPage=4&m=1
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font / typeface stop getting it wrong u nerds
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I try to be as pedantic as possible about as many things as possible. If I’m not being pedantic about something please send me a pm about it so I can call you a liar.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:The common confusion between things like "its" versus "it's," "who's" versus "whose," stuff like that. It always grates on me a little bit when someone uses the wrong one. Its should be it's, but it's not because its implies possessiveness on its own?? English needs to get its poo poo together.
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Misuse of "a" and "an" also is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Does the next word start with a consonant? Then it's "a." Does it start with a vowel? Then it's "an." This rule is simple phonetics, fer crissakes.
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It's spelled "peddantic", OP
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Misuse of "a" and "an" also is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Does the next word start with a consonant? Then it's "a." Does it start with a vowel? Then it's "an." This rule is simple phonetics, fer crissakes. What about semi-vowels?
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If there’s something I haven’t been pedantic about, I try and correct that.
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Shadow0 posted:What about semi-vowels? Always a
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Devils Affricate posted:Always a 
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Something can't more "more unique" or "less unique" or "very unique." It is either unique or it isn't.
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:I didn't mind "addicting" until I heard someone actually try to argue that it was correct and apparently had been unaware of "addictive" and even tried suggesting it must have been a US/UK difference. doctors are addicting patients to painkillers painkillers are addictive to patients for me the biggest thing is ellipsis with not 3 dots. that is............. like...... so.. annoying....................................
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I have a friend who's super pedantic about the word "jealous" being used when it should technically be "envious" but you know what? That one doesn't matter. At all.
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if you have an odd number of bones you can gently caress right off. yes i am counting your bones so get your poo poo together moron.
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pretty hate machine came out in the goddamn 80s!!!!!
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