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My friend uses the wrong words...

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nickytwotimes · 12/02/2008 13:23

My very good, kind and lovely friend uses the word "pacific" rather than the correct term "specific". My fellow pedants, what do I do? I have turned a blind eye (or deaf ear) to it thus far, but it drives me crazy. Another lovely friend responded to my ds saying "How do you do?" (he is 18 mths - very cute!) by saying "Very well thank you and how are you?"!

Am I going straight to hell for being so judgemental?

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UnquietDad · 14/02/2008 17:11

littlewonder - the problem here, as with any argument online, is that you can't bugger off and get on with Life for an afternoon without someone saying, "oooh, he's given up, he's admitting he's lost!" There comes a point when people will no longer want me simply to keep coming in here and repeating myself. I've said everything that needs to be said.

StarlightMcKenzie · 14/02/2008 17:14

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StealthPolarBear · 14/02/2008 17:16

A life UQD?
I thought you couldn't escape from a Moebius strip?

onebatmother · 14/02/2008 17:17

oh cheer up dad

onebatmother · 14/02/2008 17:18

and stinky starlight..

StarlightMcKenzie · 14/02/2008 17:23

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LittleWonder · 14/02/2008 17:30

Indeed Starlight!

UQD - did I hear just a leetle foot stamping there in your post?

LittleWonder · 14/02/2008 17:31

And it sounded as if you were swaddled in coal sack...

IorekByrnison · 14/02/2008 17:43

I thought I heard a tiny muffled stomp too, but perhaps I imagined it.

We do want you to repeat yourself UnquietDad. Please tell us again, why is it "thing"?

StarlightMcKenzie · 14/02/2008 17:43

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IorekByrnison · 14/02/2008 17:47

I was going to say something Starlight, but your post was so nice and peaceable (indeed pacific) that I bit my tongue.

onebatmother · 14/02/2008 17:51

lol Iorek me too, specifically because she is sooo pacific.

onebatmother · 14/02/2008 17:54

starlight after a while it won't hurt so much.

LittleWonder · 14/02/2008 18:13

Iorek, if I say PMSL it is, unfortunately not a euphemism.

LittleWonder · 14/02/2008 18:18

Hay, you there!! UQD - are you having a LAY down or what?
Are you having a mansulk?
Please, we are clamouring to know the thing thing.
I never made a single snipe about hair shirts, and I could of.

Talla

LittleWonder · 14/02/2008 18:19

Dear Pedants

Please note intentional use of lay and of.

Many thanks

LW

IorekByrnison · 14/02/2008 18:21

Me neither. I've often wondered why mumsnet bothers to have both lol and pmsl. Post-childbirth there is rarely any difference.

IorekByrnison · 14/02/2008 18:22

And hay?

LittleWonder · 14/02/2008 18:24

Yes hay, not hey! Why not? I will step even lower than that to lure him back.

(I never can say "lure" without feeling insecure about pronunciation)...

IorekByrnison · 14/02/2008 18:26

(Am painting a most attractive picture of myself today as incontinent arsey uberpedant. Think I need a lie down.)

IorekByrnison · 14/02/2008 18:27

Hay is dried grass, hey is the, erm, ejaculation.

IorekByrnison · 14/02/2008 18:28

Oh I see, it was a pedant trap. And I fell in like a kitten in a sack.

IorekByrnison · 14/02/2008 18:29

Yes, with lure one is always in danger of straying into Brian Sewell territory.

onebatmother · 14/02/2008 18:36

but that is the pleasure, surely, Iorek?
leeyoor.

onebatmother · 14/02/2008 18:37

or like a camel in a coal sack.