Meta - Moaning: Moaning about moaning.

[GoldenLamprey]

Somewhere, pedants are arguing grammar choice on a pendant forum.

Ah, 6Music Shaun Keaveney's Pendants' Corner!

 

[bagpuss]

Tommy James made a record about it...

View: https://youtu.be/u932L5z7aBg?t=7

 

[Fab Foodie]

Can you not have a pedants collective then.??

Like the Tolpuddle martyrs - only slightly less pitchforky .

More a gathering of precisionists.

A Pettifogger of Pedants perhaps?

Who led the Pedant’s revolt!




Which Tyler....

 

[Fab Foodie]

If you want to be a pedant you have to get it right. 'Your' should have been in inverted commas.
Can I moan about the declining standards of modern pedantry?

I think so. I’d love to be a Pedant, but my grammer and speeling are not up to the job, innit....

 

[Randomnerd]

I could get them to come on here and do some moaning about it .

Tapping away with their pecky little beaks.
🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔

They’d make far more sense than many <<he moaned>>
Would have to be careful not to leave the thread feeling hen-pecked.
Whattle they say when they do beak-type?
Sorry, my punometer has run out of batteries...

 

[matticus]

Are we adding or multiplying the moaning?

I would think the cross product would feature somewhere.

 

[Ajax Bay]

This thread (started by @roubaixtuesday - another 'shout out for them) is about moaning about moaners and the community should resist its hijacking by pedants and moaners about pedants and pedantry. 'Is it only I' but thread diversion is such a distraction, like, just saying?

 

[matticus]

Pedantry is just moaning crossed with humble-brag.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

This thread (started by @roubaixtuesday - another 'shout out for them) is about moaning about moaners and the community should resist its hijacking by pedants and moaners about pedants and pedantry. 'Is it only I' but thread diversion is such a distraction, like, just saying?

Moaning about people moaning about pedantry is on topic, but mere pedantry itself is obviously appalling thread drift. Report to @Moderators (i really hate people who moan about them btw) who will doubtless issue the most severe of punishments.

 

[Archie_tect]

Beware the idle pedant
Full of woe and morbid drear,
Thank God there's none on Cycle Chat,
... let's have another beer.

 

[Ajax Bay]

Surely you don't imagine, that I didn't set that one up for you especially dear heart.??
That's another 'affordable and accessable' hobby..
Pedantry

Off topic
The knowledge that Aubergine and Matt might stumble over my posts (even if those are delving into cable stretch or spoke tension or cycling or other interesting stuff) and check them over 'pedant style' is a true incentive to review every comment with care before hitting 'Post reply'.
Fishing for a 'bite' is likewise an accessable hobby.
And this threat to the pedant is always there, but needs an established record to achieve plausibility.

 

[Rocky]

Beware the idle pedant
Full of woe and morbid drear,
Thank God there's none on Cycle Chat,
... let's have another beer.

Should that be spelt CycleChat? ...... it doesn’t have a space, actually.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Should that be spelt CycleChat? ...... it doesn’t have a space, actually.

I am going to suggest that the question mark ends the sentence. If I am correct you should have spelled "it" with a capital letter. Also those full stops are superfluous.

 

[Rocky]

I am going to suggest that the question mark ends the sentence. If I am correct you should have spelled "it" with a capital letter. Also those full stops are superfluous.

Fair cop, gov.

 

[winjim]

I’m going to start a Pedant’s Club (or should that be Pedants’ Club?). At our first meeting we’ll moan about missing Oxford commas.