To want to claw my eyes out at this?

[Ohalrightthen]

"It's a viscous circle"

Really? It's a circle with a thick, sticky consistency?

It's a vicious cycle, for fuck's sake.

Yes, I'm an unbearable pendant. I don't actually think it's that unreasonable.

@MaelyssQ

Those onesies are horrific!

And referring to oneself as a 'pendant' is an in-joke for pedantic people.

Well, it is now.

This whole thread has me crying with laughter 🤣.

Me too op, me too. I know I shouldn't care but just can't help it. Whenever someone on TV uses a percentage over 100 my DH looks cautiously over at me like I'm going to explode!

Because I hate having to work out what it is they mean and then pretend to feign understanding.

Feign and pretend mean the same thing. You either pretend to understand or feign understanding. Pretending to feign something means you’re not actually pretending.

'Feign and pretend mean the same thing. You either pretend to understand or feign understanding. Pretending to feign something means you’re not actually pretending.'

Oh the shame @Weirdwonders .

@Cam2020

Viscous circle sounds like it could possibly be cake to me - something like a gooey chocolate cake. I was reading about someone's roll earlier in the context of work. I don't think the person was a baker, either.

Because pedants make things work. We're the ones who are precise and get it right. We don't just slap things together and hope the other person understands what we're talking about.

Quite! It makes all the difference! Just ask the Wombles! I mistakenly thought they were common throughout my whole childhood becasue I assumed a comma that wasn't there! Without any basic rules of grammar or any sense to the words we string together, language will devolve to a point where people cannot understand what someone is trying to communicate.

Oh my goodness. I thought they were common wombles too!! You've changed my life, thank you.

I also thought throughout my childhood that the carol was God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen, and not God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen.

@CounsellorTroi

I also thought throughout my childhood that the carol was God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen, and not God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen.

Really? Yes I always thought the Gentlemen were merry!

I used to think God was called Peter when we said 'thanks be to God'.

Anyone could be forgiven for misunderstanding the Wombles song; the way the lyric pauses is very misleading.

@TheYearOfSmallThings oh lord my eyes!

TheSilentStars Your posts were deleted as well for mocking people's English, weren't they?

Oh, it was you who kept re-quoting that comment. Another poster and I (who was also deleted) later joked about the use of the word "boarder" repeatedly mis-spelled throughout the thread by saying it reminded us of surfers, and not the specific use by any one poster. And the other poster's post were deleted as well. There was no "mocking", it was joking about the mis-spelling of a word.

Someone has been very busy and has then joined this thread to pursue the same issue, even though it is a thread about spelling and grammar.

I will explain why I'm touchy about the mis-spelling of the word "boarder" for border. I happen to live on the Scottish-English border, and increasingly throughout this pandemic, me and my family have been subjected to rants and online abuse by some very fervent SNP supporters about how we and others should not cross the border for work and how it is banned.

A group of SNP supporters even travelled to the border one weekend to mount a protest, which was ineffective but which gained them further publicity as it made the news.

For some reason, the phrase "the boarders closed!" has been repeatedly used in these abusive comments by SNP supporters, with that very specific spelling. Needless to say, the border has not been closed and travel for the exceptions listed within the Coronavirus Act 2020 has been entirely legal throughout, and remains so.

I would also like to point out that as Scots living in England, we are in a minority and are therefore protected under the Equality Act. There have been a number of cases of both criminal and civil action founded on the abuse of a national minority living within a part of the UK where they have been subjected to differential treatment on the basis of their nationality (Scottish, English or Welsh).

So if you would like to keep pursuing this issue, lets just have a little closer think about why you are specifically targetting me on multiple different threads regarding this very specific wrong spelling.

I hope this explains why I have reported your posts targeting me and following me around this site.

Multiple pairs of jeans on Pretty Little Thing have tears under the arse. Wtaf?

The brought thing makes me die inside. It’s very common where I live.

@TheSandman

Because pedants make things work. We're the ones who are precise and get it right. We don't just slap things together and hope the other person understands what we're talking about.

unless you are deliberately trying to loose the case.

OMG @TheSandman come back and do a mea culpa!

Do those 'sexy butt' rompers have a useful purpose? Are you supposed to be able to poo out of the hatch? Did cowboys do that? Gives Brokeback Mountain a whole other meaning...

It's probably just an auto correct gone unnoticed due to its similarity to the word intended. Like pendant for example!

Shouldn't it be for fucks sake not for fuck's sake? The sake belonging to fuck. Who is fuck?

It’s not actual spelling mistakes that make me thickly and steamingly viscous - they’re just irritants - but anyone who says ‘pretty please!’ should be thrown into a rat-infested dungeon for a fortnight. That’d larn ‘em.
Ditto anyone who starts a post with, ‘So, myself and dh....’

What irritates me is this ... eg:

OP “My dog keeps eating poo”
Reply “

@TheSandman, likewise if you ever sustain an injury or get an illness which leaves you unable to fully express yourself, pray that you aren't surrounded only by pedants. The majority of people are more likely to need understanding people than a lawyer.

Pedantic people don't get everything right and leave a lot undone. I prefer inclusiveness than needing to be right.

@TroysMammy

Shouldn't it be for fucks sake not for fuck's sake? The sake belonging to fuck. Who is fuck?

There doesn’t have to be a ‘who’ for there to be a possessive.

Rightly or wrongly, I definitely read and write it as - for fuck’s sake.

@TroysMammy

Shouldn't it be for fucks sake not for fuck's sake? The sake belonging to fuck. Who is fuck?

It's a variation of "for Pete's sake".

@CounsellorTroi

I also thought throughout my childhood that the carol was God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen, and not God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen.

For ages, my son was convinced it was "Get dressed, you merry gentlemen" 😂

MerchantOfVenom Andylion oh right. I only use for fuck's sake verbally and quite frequently but I've never had cause to write it.

I say fuck sake - like for the sake of fuck!

@PrincessNutNutRoast

Yes, I'm an unbearable pendant.

Ha.

@RolandSchitt

Please tell me unbearable pendant was deliberate

It is a typographical error. For heaven’s sake, it hardly negates the OP’s point.