Taking Pedantry to a new level

[lougle]

DD2 said 'I played with X and Y today. We played 'doggies'. I was X's doggy and Y was the burglar.'

I recognised the plot so I said:

'Ooh, like 101 Dalmatians.'

DD2 frowned and said 'No!'

I said 'Was Y trying to steal you?'

DD2: Yes.

Me: 'Well....in 101 Dalmatians the burglars were trying to steal the doggies, weren't they?'

DD2: Yes.

Me: 'So it's like 101 Dalmatians...'

DD2: 'No, Mummy! There weren't lots of them. They didn't have spots and we. were. human .!!!!

DS1 used to. If I say "DS1, you're bouncing like Tigger!" he'd reply, rather crossly, "I'm not Tigger!*

Oh yes, incredibly so, PolterGoose. The thing is, I was trying to share in her wonder of having friends to play with, and she was incensed that I could possibly think that one human pretend dog could bear relation to 101 canine real dogs.

I get into all sorts of scrapes

It's just the same as when I asked if her teacher was 'like Miss Honey'. How dare I??? She has different hair and a different. name.

Ouryve, didn't you know your own son was not in fact Tigger? Shame on you

DS is currently 'making' apple juice by inserting a straw into an actual apple.......sigh.....

Now that is class

Lougle.... You have no idea! For a non verbal child he is remarkable at making himself understood and for thinking outside of the box. The apples went into the cupboard whee the apple juice cartons are kept, along with the straws after he had finished extracting juice.

Ds1 regularly tells dd off for saying she's a dog/cat/guinea-pig etc. "No dd you are not an X, you are a 4 year old girl. You don't have a tail or fur and you can talk - you are a HUMAN!" all said with increasing irritation.

Dd is, I hope/think, nt - at least she appears to be in all the significant ways - but yesterday she said to me I couldn't blow a raspberry on her tummy, because raspberries only go on bushes or plates. She then got very upset when I told her that Mummy has raspberries that can go on tummies or necks and was insistent it's bushes or plates only. So of course .... I had to grab her and smother her in neck and tum raspberries just to prove my point. Even then she wouldn't concede - even after ds2 joined in on my side.

we were having a cheap lunch out & DS noticed that the pudding for the Kid's deal was spelt potz not pots..... He was incensed & felt the need to tell the waiter that it was incorrect, and that he should really get it changed.

That sounds awfully familiar to me lougle

Cant think of any examples atm but we do pedantry big time

As soon as I pressed post I remembered one she gets me with nearly everyday.

When I put her to bed I always say come on its xxxxtime but I round it up to the nearest 5 minutes or so and she always corrects me so if I say "Come on its ten to 8" she will say "No mum its 7.49!!"

I have been setting myself up for it nearly every night for about 5 yrs
I am not a quick learner

Brilliant

Ineed, I do exactly the same thing - and get corrected every single time. You think I'd have learned after ten years.

Funnily enough though, when he is due to start computer time at 5.00 pm, it's ok for him to say "Can I have computer time please?" at 4.56, 4.57, 4.58 etc.

Oh yes moose but never slip into the disolusion that our rules apply to them

Plus3 DS used to be exactly the same. There is a coffee shop in our local town which has a 'specials' board hand written with chalk. DS made it his duty to point out any spelling mistakes on the board - which seemed to happen on a regular basis. The owner took it in good humour and it got to the point where she would ask him if there were any spelling mistakes that day! I was never sure if she started making them deliberately just to see if he spotted them!!!

I told ds1 that my 'house rules' apply outside of the house, for as long as I am with them this morning, when he used a banned word re breaking wind.

He then said that they can't be house rules, because we were outside of the house. So I said they get extended to cover wherever I am and then he told me I was silly because no-one could build an extension that big!

I think he was playing me up, but suspect there was healthy helping of literal thinking going on as well.

In the end I gave up and told him that in that particular case, he can use whatever word he likes for breaking wind when he is with his friends, but he is never to say that word in my presence. He accepted that.

Lol, bigblue that is funny.

My uncle and cousin used to pick out spelling mistakes from the newspaper, when I was a kid. Any bad grammar on the tv or radio would also be noticed and often the tv or radio would be shouted at

It didnt take long to work out where Dd's1 and 3 got their traits from

@ moose

I must admit, I positively itch at grammatical errors and spelling errors, etc. I have to really focus on the task at hand and resist the urge to correct.

The worst is when the sign is either laminated - indicating that some care went into its production, or, when it is a sign-written van.

I once followed a van which had 'greens builder's' I almost went into the back of the van, such was my distraction

Oh Lougle! You must hate my posts.

I was bad enough before my brain became Swiss-cheese, but these days I regularly fail to notice glaring errors in my posts until days after I've posted them.

I am the same moose I always used to put (sp) after spellings that I wasnt sure about but I dont even do that anymore

And I have totally dumped ' incase I put them in the wrong place

I like your thinking Ineed.

' tell you all you need to know about the subject of discussion

I've seen, on MN, the following:

Mother's Day (the Day of the Mother)
Mothers Day (totally nonsensical, ignore it)
Mothers' Day (the Day of the Mothers).

I adore apostrophes

To my eternal shame, I once laminated a sign that had 'definate' in it. I have never spelt it incorrectly by accident since.

Ellen, that marks the end of a beautiful friendship