Spoken like a gentleman, sir. An interesting thread this one, with some good thought provoking points. It’s true that those people that write to the BBC pointing out inaccuracies in some recent production, don’t elicit many reactions along the lines of ‘well done, you clever and better educated fellow than the rest of us”, but more typically “no one loves a smartarse, you smug pedant”. However, I worry that some of us contributing to some of these threads stray dangerously close to the same territory - how do you share knowledge and tips sincerely these days without being cast as a pedantic attention seeker?
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