Dutchy wrote:snail
Gross.
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Re: A pedantic thread
Airstud wrote:Dutchy wrote:snail
Gross.
A snail has an important role in nature, therefore it can never be Gross.
Re: A pedantic thread
DocLightning wrote:Dutchy wrote:Of course it should not be a period, it should have been an exclamation mark!
I'd have used a semicolon where you used that comma.
That is you....
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not to be pedantic, but I don't see a new trump thread in 3 hours, what's happened?
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seb146 wrote:I prefer a good pedamorphic infective myself.
Long live the Oxford comma and two spaces after a period!!
Long live the Oxford comma, and two spaces after a period!
Pedantically yours,
Revelation
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FatCat wrote:not to be pedantic, but I don't see a new trump thread in 3 hours, what's happened?
Not to be pedantic, but I had quite enjoyed having a thread sans politics for a short while.
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trpmb6 wrote:FatCat wrote:not to be pedantic, but I don't see a new trump thread in 3 hours, what's happened?
Not to be pedantic, but I had quite enjoyed having a thread sans politics for a short while.
Me too, but hey here's another topic on how much of an ass is Trump, what a fresh wave of air
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The one I remember was " your going to like us TWA " . That's was from the early 80's .
not to be pedantic, but "You're"
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Not to be pedantic but I just read an article that said:
The portion of the quote in bold is meaningless to the majority of readers. All it tells me is the writer likely resides in the state of New York.
The continuous lava flow has now covered about 12.5 square miles of Hawaii's Big Island, or about half the size of Manhattan
The portion of the quote in bold is meaningless to the majority of readers. All it tells me is the writer likely resides in the state of New York.
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trpmb6 wrote:Not to be pedantic but I just read an article that said:The continuous lava flow has now covered about 12.5 square miles of Hawaii's Big Island, or about half the size of Manhattan
The portion of the quote in bold is meaningless to the majority of readers. All it tells me is the writer likely resides in the state of New York.
I have never understood these comparisons. I was east of the Mississippi once when I was six months old, so when a fire here in the West takes out "an area the size of Rhode Island," I have no clue what that is like. Or the YouTube video I saw the other day about the Vatican railroad compared the size of Vatican City to the height of Burj Khalifa. Meaningless to me.
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seb146 wrote:. Meaningless to me.
That is a sentence fragment.
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DocLightning wrote:seb146 wrote:. Meaningless to me.
That is a sentence fragment.
"That" is a pronoun. In this case, referring to my sentence fragment.
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seb146 wrote:In this case, referring to my sentence fragment.
That excuse for a sentence is missing a subject.
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Airstud wrote:seb146 wrote:In this case, referring to my sentence fragment.
That excuse for a sentence is missing a subject.
He should have diagrammed it first.
That would have been the pedantic thing to do.
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Airstud wrote:seb146 wrote:In this case, referring to my sentence fragment.
That excuse for a sentence is missing a subject.
The subject is implied. The subject of that sentence you quote is referring back to the sentence before it.
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Revelation wrote:Airstud wrote:seb146 wrote:In this case, referring to my sentence fragment.
That excuse for a sentence is missing a subject.
He should have diagrammed it first.
That would have been the pedantic thing to do.
Honestly, I would love to learn to diagram sentences again. I had one teacher in middle school spend three weeks teaching us about diagramming sentences. That is my whole experience learning how to diagram sentences. I would also like to learn shorthand. It is my opinion that shorthand is the Latin of the written word.
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seb146 wrote:It is my opinion that shorthand is the Latin of the written word.
Do you want to learn Gregg shorthand, or Pitman?
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Airstud wrote:seb146 wrote:It is my opinion that shorthand is the Latin of the written word.
Do you want to learn Gregg shorthand, or Pitman?
If those are the choices, I'd choose Teeline shorthand. Purely to be pedantic and point out there are more choices than those two.
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BlueberryWheats wrote:Airstud wrote:seb146 wrote:It is my opinion that shorthand is the Latin of the written word.
Do you want to learn Gregg shorthand, or Pitman?
If those are the choices, I'd choose Teeline shorthand. Purely to be pedantic and point out there are more choices than those two.
I would pedantically point out that Teeline is used mainly within the Commonwealth whereas seb146 resides in the States.
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Airstud wrote:BlueberryWheats wrote:Airstud wrote:
Do you want to learn Gregg shorthand, or Pitman?
If those are the choices, I'd choose Teeline shorthand. Purely to be pedantic and point out there are more choices than those two.
I would pedantically point out that Teeline is used mainly within the Commonwealth whereas seb146 resides in the States.
Excellent retort, sir.
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Airstud wrote:BlueberryWheats wrote:Airstud wrote:
Do you want to learn Gregg shorthand, or Pitman?
If those are the choices, I'd choose Teeline shorthand. Purely to be pedantic and point out there are more choices than those two.
I would pedantically point out that Teeline is used mainly within the Commonwealth whereas seb146 resides in the States.
Gregg is the only shorthand style I have ever known. Now, I am interested that there are others. It does make me wonder what shorthand looks like in China or Egypt or Russia? Languages that do not use the Latin based alphabet, do they use shorthand at all?
My apologies for hijacking the thread, but my world has been rocked and I need answers!!
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Not to be pedantic but Gregg seems to have too many g's to be shorthand.
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trpmb6 wrote:Not to be pedantic but Gregg seems to have too many g's to be shorthand.
This post wins the internet for today
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FatCat wrote:trpmb6 wrote:Not to be pedantic but Gregg seems to have too many g's to be shorthand.
This post wins the internet for today
Not to be pedantic but that was posted yesterday.
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trpmb6 wrote:FatCat wrote:trpmb6 wrote:Not to be pedantic but Gregg seems to have too many g's to be shorthand.
This post wins the internet for today
Not to be pedantic but that was posted yesterday.
Not to be pedantic but due to the time zone, today's tomorrow or yesterday somewhere.
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