I am@partial to a bit of pedantry as some have noticed in the past, but this is world class by Mr Brisbane. From Pedantry Corner, Private Eye
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“Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.” — Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
#TomRobbins #Quotation #Quote #QOTD #Pedantry

https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/quote-of-the-day-5469/

Relentless bombardment shows no sign of relenting, you say?

Huh.

#pedantry #language #TheGuardian

Pedantic moment: Sometimes it's and me, not and I.

Common mistake:
NO: He gave it to my friend and I
YES: He gave it to my friend and me
because if "my friend" wasn't there, it would be "...to me" not "... to I."

Almost always done correctly:
NO: My friend and me took a vacation
YES: My friend and I took a vacation
because if "my friend' wasn't there, it would be "I took..." not "me took.."

I, too, had more than one teacher who taught me that "[person] and me" should always be changed to "[person] and I", but then I had two years of Catholic school, which (in my case) meant two years of diagramming sentences and learning about direct objects, etc.

This really isn't the most important thing. I don't personally care very much, but I try to get it right when I write and talk, and I have a very tiny eye twitch when I see it wrong; not a big eye twitch, just a small one.

Context so you know exactly what level of language asshole pedant I am:

• Almost no eye twitch: It's time to lay down for the night
• Small eye twitch: It was a phone call for Jenny and I
• Medium eye twitch: This is how it looks like (but also I smile and think this one is cute, for some reason)
• Big eye twitch: I will never step foot in that house again
• Gigantic eye twitch and someone in the house has to talk me down from writing a 500-word reply-rant: This is based off of...

#grammar #english #language #pedantry #IKnowIAmWrong

Today's, slightly pedantic, grammar/vocabulary query. How and why has it become fashionable to use adverbs with no intrinsic indication of size or speed to imply something is big and fast?

Examples include: at scale, at pace, at speed. There are probably others. They don't mean what the speaker/writer seems to be implying.
/rant
#grammar #pedantry #vocabulary

"Though the moon had not yet set, the sky in the east was stained with light...."

What is that "though" doing there? These two states are not inherently contradictory! Either the moon is at a phase where it normally sets at or after dawn OR it isn't, and the moon shouldn't be up at first light, and this very mainstream litfic novel is about to turn magic realism on me. And I'm pretty sure THE ESSEX SERPENT isn't about to do that on page 355.

FAIL!

#BadMoon #MoonFail #pedantry #PetPeeve

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/116210644218459297

The correct use of an ellipsis is "…" and not "...". #typography #pedantry