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Pedants' corner

To suggest that people use this time to learn the difference between..

143 replies

LidlDonkey · 07/04/2020 11:19

Your and you're
Their, they're and there

And when to use an apostrophe.

OP posts:
Winter2020 · 07/04/2020 12:29

I woz goin to tel the boss I wud go in and care for sick yer. but your rite grammma lessons for me bro.

Neonyellow · 07/04/2020 12:29

How do you feel about people starting a sentence with “and”?

Haha!

Port1aCastis · 07/04/2020 12:31

I was always taught that one should not begin a sentence with and as it is a conjunction.
Shot yourself in the arse there OP

LivingOnAnIsland · 07/04/2020 12:31

I'm fairly pedantic and agree that I lower my opinion of people if I see that they haven't used the correct version of your/you're etc (it's really not difficult). I didn't realise that it isn't 'with regards to' though! So thanks for the info.

Latteaday123 · 07/04/2020 12:35
Grin
BobbinThreadbare123 · 07/04/2020 12:35

This is pedants' corner, exactly where this should be. Why the vitriol?

NoMoreDickheads · 07/04/2020 12:37

Grin Grin Grin

Zilla1 · 07/04/2020 12:39

Does anyone know where to find the punctuation pot so I can look for some colons or semicolons?

EmeraldShamrock · 07/04/2020 12:39

I'm fairly pedantic and agree that I lower my opinion of people if I see that they haven't used the correct version of your/you're etc (it's really not difficult)
There are some truly awful people in the world all riding their high horse with their score board. I hope you never need the people you've a low opinion on.

WhentheRabbitsWentWild · 07/04/2020 12:41

How about So , …..

I am not as anal as you OP but when I see So at the start of a sentence it winds me up for some reason.

@EmeraldShamrock Grin .

morecoffeerequired · 07/04/2020 12:42

It would be good if people could actually teach their small children the meaning of the words "Don't touch".

LivingDeadGirlUK · 07/04/2020 12:42

I could care less tbh...

SachaStark · 07/04/2020 12:43

Can I put in a bid for the different between “weary” and “wary”?

Fed up of watching beauty “gurus” go on about how they’re “a little weary to use such a bright shade”. Yes, I’m sure it’s exhausting.

SachaStark · 07/04/2020 12:43

*different, oh for Christ’s sake...

FaFoutis · 07/04/2020 12:43

Economic

Economical

SachaStark · 07/04/2020 12:44

*difference!! Fuck is wrong with my typing today?!

Can I please put in a bid for my own hands to learn that the bloody “t” and “c” are in opposing places on the keypad?!

TheCanterburyWhales · 07/04/2020 12:47

Pedants' Corner didn't use to be full of smug OPs belittling others.
We used to talk about language, and funny turns of phrase, and interesting things.
Then, a couple of years ago, people started thinking it was here to point less than perfect fingers at other posters.
The old regulars have given up really.

The irony of course, is always that nasty posts like the OP's always have just as many, if not more, errors than the ones they are attempting to be smug and twatty about.

Which is greatly satisfying.

It takes some doing though to make quite as many errors as this particular OP in such a few words.

TheCanterburyWhales · 07/04/2020 12:49

@WhentheRabbitsWentWild.

How do you feel about commas?

Thedogscollar · 07/04/2020 12:51

BobbinThreadbare123 Why the vitriol? This was originally posted in AIBU that's why.

Mawbags · 07/04/2020 12:51

OP, maybe you could learn how many full stops in an ellipsis?!

MilkTrayLimeBarrel · 07/04/2020 12:52

Reins/reigns!

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 07/04/2020 12:52

I agree, TheCanterburyWhales, Pedants' Corner has been infiltrated by a lot of self-satisfied, smug posters who really get off on correcting other people's SPaG. They've diminished it and I'm sorry that the regulars have gone as I used to spend quite a bit of time reading there - and peacefully learning.

I expect the OP is disappointed to have had their thread moved there, less attention. A desperate position for an attention-seeking poster to be in...

vodkaredbullgirl · 07/04/2020 12:53

Oh it move from AIBU.

ChardonnaysPetDragon · 07/04/2020 12:53

Are we going to have an exam when we're done?

MarieIVanArkleStinks · 07/04/2020 12:54

Hooray! The prefects have come back out to play. Hmm