to systematically correct my mum...

[Edma]

when she calls dinosaurs dragons? Apparently I am being pedantic as it's all the same really

YABVU.

Haha! YANBU but tell her about Komodo Dragons to soften the blow

Fantastic!

Loving how this is willfully not in Pedants' Corner (YANBU or - indeed - YANBP)

Does it really matter?

Well I think it matters an awful lot!

Why does it matter? She has survived thus far and brought up a family without this essential knowledge.

Some dinosaurs were teeny tiny vegetarians. Like the Liberal Democrats of dragons, maybe.

But I don't want the DCs thinking "it's all the same really!".
And I am trying to get her to stop saying yuk when she sees an animal that's not a furry mammal. I am a very controlling daughter!

Ask for conclusive proof from her that the dinosaurs dragons to which she is referring can breathe fire.

I thought it was compulsory for grandparents to muddle the names of things, ours do it all the time!

As one is a fictional creature I think it's fair enough to correct her. Or you could start calling horses unicorns.

YABVVVVVU

My mother picks me up on everything I cannot joke about anything anymore...must have chat about my constant sarcastic SOH

Dina-sours/Dragons..both big green things with tails and scary!

She's not muddling up the names. She's not that interested... It's all the same to her.

And when I was explaining about dinosaurs having really existed and all that, she said "How do you know? Have you ever seen one?" Half-jokingly!

Dina-sours/Dragons..both big green things with tails and scary! I think that's exactly it WWW

Thank you Edma! One blows fire I suspect though... scary animals!

You can't be having that many conversations about dinosaurs...
You're both adults, talk about something else!

We normally wouldn't talk about it that much but DS is dino-obsessed so there's been quite a few dino-related things lying about in the house...

Oh I don't know.... I have been chatting about moshie monsters all day

moshie monsters, dinosaurs, dragons, same thing ?

Actually moshies monster are not scary! Cute little strange things my son collects 91 we have now.... I mean DS has.