Getting to Know the Know-It-Alls The seamy side of pedant-on-pedant rhetorical violence.

"The #book is full of useful considerations for #pedants hoping to be less irritating, but Visser ultimately considers that irritation the cost of doing business: Worthwhile #intellectual #work is unavoidably challenging, and sometimes even unpleasant." hedgehogreview.com/issues/human...

@huwiceandstuff.bsky.social have you seen the new Lloyds Bank advert? I'm pretty sure that African penguin has been dubbed by an Emperor Penguin!
#BirdNerds
#Pedants

; question for all bluesky #grammar #pedants, as this irks me every year!

in the context of mother's day - a day to celebrate 𝗮𝗹𝗹 mothers collectively - shouldn't the apostrophe be placed 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 the s?

mothers 𝘱𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 - thus surely it should be mothers' day not mother's day?

#logophile #mothersday

Oscar Isaac is acting hard, I'll tell you that much. Certainly, nobody can deny that he was showing up every day and giving a lot of effort.

I think he's called Jacob Elordi, the actor playing Frankenstein, I MEAN FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER

"No! How many times do we have to have this conversation? *I'm* #Frankenstein. *You're* Frankenstein's Monster."

😆

I could make memes. I've got that dog in me 😤

#FilmSky #MovieSky #pedants

For the cycling pedants out there, yes it could well be a #Carrera cap but as I typically - & yes maybe unethically - wore a #PDM cap a lot, to ride, I guessed it was that one.

#cycling #pedants

Hi #pedants I'm seeing 'normalcy' online where I would have used 'normality'. Is this because the writer is American or trained in US English or just because I'm old? Is normalcy the new normality now?
#pedantry #English

“active voice” vs “passive voice”

… ridiculously petty

#journalism
#Bluesky
#pedants
#writing
#nitwittery

So tired of #pedants 😑

Do y'all engage with hypotheticals, humour, and stories; or do you try to outsmart them? Just, maybe Izzy just, like, not understand the positives of #pedantry, but it seem so... down, kimda unhappy; am Izzy wrong? 😟

Playing with some leftover bits of horn. I made some quick amulets of Odin's ravens, Huginn & Muninn.

#handicrafts #amulets #pedants #Vikingcrafts #ravens

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Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

One example of this […]

#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #expulsionofthetriumphantbeast #bruno #immortality #pedants #strive #perfection #reward #gods #divine #community #intellect #magnanimity #justice #mercy #heresy #giordanobruno

them: "Your lack of punctuation is disturbing."

me in response: 英語がわかりません

#unitedkingdom #british #britain #ukpolitics #english #grammar #grammarnazis #pedants #linguistics

Technically, the structure of the parthenon is a colonnade, but a colonnade is just a big balustrade. So for all the #pedants out there, bugger off. ;-)

Come on fellow #pedants, step up to the podium!

… and no, I didn’t spell “nothing” wrong.
#pedants 😁