(pedant alert)

[Olifin]

AIBU to wish people would say 'mischievous' rather than 'mischievious'?

And to wish that people would notice the difference between prostate and prostrate?

Too much time on my hands on a Sunday morning...

i wish i was as perfect as you op.unfortunately I'm too busy enjoying life
yabu.you say it doesnt count if a person is dyslexic,how do you know?do you slag them off first or should they start each post with 'excuse my dyslexia'?

Not much of a pedant thread, when a Nemesis has to notice an obvious mistake.

With the exception of Becauseimworthit, who had to sit on her hands, you guys are wannabe's!

Most people are pedantic about something. Some people are fussy about fashion, or food, or customer service. Why not be fussy about the use of language?

(and no, I don't always get it right, but if someone pointed out a mistake I'd be happy to learn what was correct :))

Why do pendents always do that fake "oh, I just can't help being a pendent" as though they are ashamed of it, when clearly they think pendents are better than everyone else?

I've no idea, skidoodly.

But I'm not ashamed of being a pedant. Except I know that it offends people.

The one that always makes me fume?

Arks instead of Ask

There is no apostrophe in 'wannabes' Claw.

Pendents don't offend me. They are just knobs who think their rigid application of rules they don't understand is some kind of higher calling.

One of the worst for me is when people say "would of" instead of "would have"
Never sure if it's laziness or illiteracy.

You are living up to your name then Epicfail, as you have not failed totally in pointing out my mistake.

I shall cross you off of my list of wannabes.

Anyone who is "overly concerned with formalism and precision, or who makes a show of his learning" it is so tedious.

YADNBU

What about someone "overly concerned with informalism and imprecision, or who makes a show of his lack of learning"?

YABU I find it really hard to differentiate between subtle sounds.

I thorght I was just a bad speller until DS was assessed for dyslexia. One of his problems is auditory processing, where he doesnt hear the difference between subtle sounds. So I guess Im the same.

I was never that bothered at being a bad speller. Since using mumsnet I am very conscious of it. Sometimes people on here point out my mistakes in a nice way but other times people have been plain nasty.

Ozmetric, I dont get it, unless you are a teacher dealing with students, what do you stand to gain, other than a sense of smugness?

"Espresso" not "expresso"!!!

"From" not "of off"!!!

There are quite often pedant threads of this type on MN, so I don't see why the OP is getting singled out on this particular one for abuse. OP - you'll probably find a warmer welcome in Pedants' Corner.

Ordered an espresso yesterday and got a blank look off the young lad at the till, repeated myself then the light bulb went on! 'Oh EXpresso!' Didn't have the energy to explain just needed the caffine.

I can't spell for toffee but using the wrong names for things really bugs me!

The OP is not being singled out, a couple of people have differing opinions, that is what you get on AIBU.

Claw3: I noticed your pedant/pendant mistyping and thought that you were trying to be amusing. Obviously not.
However, it neatly proves just how misleading poor typing/spelling/grammar can be.

Pedants Corner is that way >>>>>>>>>>>

Olifin - there is a whole board for you and your anal friends to play on - do us a favour - go and use it!

Many of our lovely posters have learning difficulties and some of us just type too quickly & make mistakes... so what?

Right now my keyboard is playing up and missing out lots of letters - my posts probably look terrible - but I don't care, people can understand what I mean.

People like you, put people off posting and it's piss poor of you to be honest.

-->>>>>>> Pedants corner---->>>>>>>

Being proud of being a pendent is like being proud of being opnionated, it just demonstrates that you don't know what the word means.

Which is particularly ironic in the case of pendents.

What's a pendent?