A victory for pedantry!

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Yesterday I had occasion to call a real estate broker regarding a property he was advertising on his website - which proudly stated that it "(the company) is proud of it's private clients and the strength of it's business"

I couldn't get him on the phone, so had to send an email, and at the bottom stated that I hated being such a pedant, but did he know about his rogue apostrophes?

Today, it's been changed. Although he's not talked to me directly yet.

I love pedants' corner - it's the only place that I could write something like this without feeling totally petty and unreasonable .

Do said estate agents advertise properties with bathrooms featuring "opaque windows"? Because that irritates me greatly. I fear I'm alone on this though - dp insists that it is quite resonable that a bathroom should have such windows. He is wrong.

Indeed, otter. Wouldn't that be essentially a wall?

Otter - love it!!

You can get glass that is opaque until you put an electric current through it, at which point it turns clear. Thus you can have opaque windows.

I can't stand when they put

"the property comprises of"

ffs

Hmm as a pretty dyed-in-the-wool pedant, I must say that I think opaque is reasonable in this context.....isn't it?

Or should it be translucent, is that your point?

Weeeeeell, an online definition I have found suggests that opaque is "not clear" in colloquial use, and while that might be best applied to an unclear meaning for example, it could be 'lent' to the physical world too, I would suggest.

In the context of materials, its transparent - translucent - opaque as any child doing KS2 science should be able to tell you.

So, except in the unlikely event of the sort of glass dragon mentioned, they should be using translucent for anything functioning as a window.

You assume that estate agents are qualified to KS2

And, to be particularly pedantic, I believe Jacques Cellard said that if nine out of ten people make an error of pronunciation or grammar, then the tenth one is wrong, and I would suggest that 'opaque glass' is in common use in bulding and DIY and estate agency, but perhaps that is what pedants' corner is all about

An interesting interpretation, and I stand full-square with pedants in general, but Cellard was talking about grammar and the apparent conflict between lofty academics (e.g. the Academie Francaise) who were trying to define the French language vs. real people using the language.

Definition (and changes in definition) through use is one of the things that makes language most interesting.

Einstein challenged the status quo, as do grocers with 'their' apostrophe, although his is regarded as a more intelligent contribution .

Perhaps, I would argue, a slightly mis-leading parallel?