Vocab tune-up

[Renegade]

I completely concur regarding the importance of grammar.
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-kyrathaba (September 23, 2013, 11:02 AM)

I love that pic! 

[Target]

Vocab tune-up

[tomos]

^it's amazing the number of people who use words without really thinking - what does this mean exactly (or even roughly). Or write articles without defining terms.

example

a prize example being the word 'spirituality'. Related Wikipedia page starts "The term spirituality lacks a definitive definition ..."; yet, it is very commonly used without any attempt at definition. (It's not an on-topic word for dc, hence the spoilers.)

[tomos]

spoiler

It's a good example in ways: he'd have to shoot the complete population of Ireland for the way they pronounce 'H' ;-)

Haven't heard that one about ignorami vs. ignoramuses before...

[J-Mac]

Stephen Fry has a great essay on language pedants: summarized in an article here:  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/stephen-fry-takes-on-the-language-pedants/article624941/

Or read the entire treatise here:  http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/11/04/dont-mind-your-language%E2%80%A6/

In the article on his page - the second link above - the part about pedantry is at least halfway down the page.

Jim

[Edvard]

maybe *you* have a fifter I could kiff ?

-tomos (August 29, 2013, 06:20 PM)

fo forry, fad to fay no fifter. 

-cranioscopical (August 29, 2013, 08:39 PM)

Actually, that would be 'kiſs your ſiſter', consistent with the post-medieval/pre-modern usage of the archaic 'long s'^w. 
Glad to see it go, really.  I've a spelling-nazi streak in me that would have been driven to fits...

[cranioscopical]

maybe *you* have a fifter I could kiff ?

-tomos (August 29, 2013, 06:20 PM)

fo forry, fad to fay no fifter. 

-cranioscopical (August 29, 2013, 08:39 PM)

Actually, that would be 'kiſs your ſiſter', consistent with the post-medieval/pre-modern usage of the archaic 'long s'^w. 
Glad to see it go, really.  I've a spelling-nazi streak in me that would have been driven to fits...

-Edvard (September 29, 2013, 02:52 AM)

True, but I haven't a long s on my f-ing keyboard   
 

[tomos]

consistent with the post-medieval/pre-modern usage of the archaic 'long s'^w.

-Edvard (September 29, 2013, 02:52 AM)

I guess that would be related to the German "scharfes S" (= "ß" ~ "ss"/"sz").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F

Even though long s has otherwise disappeared from German orthography, ß is still used as a ligature and is replaced by 'SS' or 'SZ' in capitalized spelling. Its German name is Eszett, the lexicalized expression for "sz", from "es-zed") or scharfes S, "sharp S").

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seems to indicate that it co-existed with the "long s"...

I've a spelling-nazi streak in me that would have been driven to fits...

-Edvard (September 29, 2013, 02:52 AM)

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and here I thought all along that you were this real chilled out kind of guy ;-) :p

[Edvard]

and here I thought all along that you were this real chilled out kind of guy ;-) :p

   Well, actually, my reaction to most grammar and spelling mistakes:



So... yeah.