'Now I don't like to be pedantic '

Subject: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 08:31 AM

?

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 08:52 AM

No, but you can't help your nature - try seeking medical help !

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 09:17 AM

'Now I don't like to be pedantic '

DAve Oesterreich

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 09:17 AM

'Now I don't like to be pedantic '

I do.

DAve Oesterreich

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: heric
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 09:33 AM

But I suppose I used to.

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: IvanB
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 09:35 AM

Whatta ya mean, don't like to be pedantic? If I can Point out to someone the error of their ways and the dire consequences thereof, I'm in heaven.

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: mack/misophist
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 09:37 AM

Ido.

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 10:28 AM

Our GUEST seems to have disappeared - suprise, surprise !

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Spartacus
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 10:37 AM

I can be pedantic right now. "Ido" is not actually a word, Misophist.

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 11:07 AM

What did the Pink Panther say to the "guest"?

"Pedant...pedant...pedant,pedant,pedant,pedant!"

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: GUEST,Roger O'K
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 11:29 AM

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: GUEST,Roger o'K
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 11:33 AM

Feckin' hairtrigger again.

Is this what they call a troll. It seems like a call to all pedants to get in on the act, given that anyone who says she or he doesn't like to be pedantic invariably loves it....

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: heric
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 11:37 AM

yes, it's a troll. Beware.

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 03:43 PM

Although I'm not pedantic if it's not called for, sometimes I have to be in order to get details from being misinterpreted, because popular terminology is much the same as the specialist terminology, but can bring in vastly different images to the reader than the one which the specialist wishes to convey.

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: death by whisky
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 04:04 PM

( pre-ix Bill D ).Pedaaaaant.Pedant-iddely-ant.

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 04:21 PM

Pedants are pompous, swell-headed, contemptible swine! They should all be deported to Tierra Del Fuego!

Oh, by the way, GUEST, you left out the comma after "Now"...unless you meant that you used to like to be pedantic, but that you don't like to be pedantic at the present time...

So, I believe you should have written: "Now, I don't like to be pedantic..." (Heh! Heh!)

- LH

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 05:20 PM

Little Hawk, what would Mudcat do without pedants? I like to think we are the salt of the earth.
Anyone who has peed ants should see their friendly neighborhood exterminator.
This thread shows that we need guest trolls to start rolling the ball of dung. The sentence posted by Guest, with the word "Like," should read: I do not wish to be perceived as a pedant but as a .....!

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: mack/misophist
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 06:07 PM

Dear Spartacus, Thanks for giving me this opportunity to be pedantic myself. You're right. BTW were all here aware that the old saw "a gentleman and a scholar" has been replaced by "a prig and a pedant". Yea, pedants.

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: gnu
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 06:28 PM

Perhaps our guest was asking for our opinions on the use of single quotation marks which are sometimes used in place of the "double", especially in British usage. Of course, this query is obviously not in reference to the use of single quotation marks within double quotation marks as the rules for such usage are quite clear.

'gnu'or"gnu"

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Noreen
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 06:35 PM

especially in British usage.? Nah, it's aol that questions my use of "inverted commas" every time I use them in e-mails...!

Noreen the trainee pedant-librarian

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 06:42 PM

A printer once told me that no book exists in which all of the quotes have been properly set. Quotation marks are a proof-readers, and a typesetters, nightmare. I know type is no longer set, but electrotyped (no, now computer printing has arrived), but the observation still holds.

Subject: call me a pedant but it should be -
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 07:06 PM

!

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: gnu
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 07:17 PM

Call me a "pedant", but it should be :

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 08:12 PM

You're a pedant! Hang your head in shame....

- LH

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: kendall
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 10:20 PM

WOBH

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Blackcatter
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 11:29 PM

I couldn't help but notice that there was a missing 'pedant' in the Pink Panther reference above...

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 12:07 AM

Isn't there a song about the pedant's pendants? Catspaw would know.

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 12:22 AM

This thread is a pedantry. Rustic

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 12:28 AM

Please! This thread is pedantry; not "a" pedantry. (Who knows? The Shadow doesn't know- only the pedant knows)

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Hrothgar
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 04:10 AM

A pedant ith a perdon who tild da thoil.

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 09:41 AM

the missing 'pedant' was supplied by 'death by whisky', and was not actually necessary to indicate the required tune, however, I am surprised that no TRUE pedants have noted that the Pink Panther rendition requires an accent on the wrong sy-LAB-ble.

(The original 'joke' was, "What did the Pink Panther say when he stepped on an ant?"..."Dead ant...dead ant....etc.", which does not require incorrect emphasis for its juvenile humor)

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: gnu
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 10:20 AM

WOBH ? Please, anyone ?

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: GUEST,Igwig
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 11:20 AM

"the Woman Ought to Be Hanged"

Igwig the Iguana

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Snuffy
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 06:57 PM

Whale Oil Beef Hooked

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: gnu
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 07:03 PM

CDEDBDI's ?

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 07:05 PM

WTHDTM ???

- LH

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: gnu
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 07:08 PM

It meant : See the itty bitty eyes ?

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 08:12 PM

what did Old Mother Hubbard say when she looked in the cupboard?

OICURMT

Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 08:31 PM

Easy, Little Hawk. Why The Hell Did Tom Masturbate?