Pedantic Speech Fan Club
Thank yew! Thank yew!
..I need some sort of bowing/curtsy emoticon here...
"Big-words" don't define it.
So sayeth wiki:
But, the negative side:
For us in this thread though:
And HFA and Asperger's are mentioned in the following lines of wiki's definition:
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Wow, "apothegmaticall"... that's quite a word there.
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I'm not sure whether I'm a member here, because I can be a bad judge in qualitative stuff, but I have found myself writing more that way on this forum than when I speak IRL.
I went through a phase of 'trying to master street speech' when I was a lot younger, so I believe I can be versatile, so my sympathy there Brittany2907. I used to start a conversation with a peer in 'vouvoyer (Fr. Here I mean the equivalent in my language)' when I was young, because I understood it to be the rule and was puzzled why others didn't seem to do this. And WinterRose I share the spelling problem with you haha. Also English is a foreign language to me so I will be easily beaten by literature-minded WP members in the multi-syllablic department.
I was thinking in my case it's more of trying to express the idea as accurately as possible, just like you would in a maths problem, when I read this.
[typo: esoteric]
nutbag, I like your 'may' in l.1. That's a beauty.
I'm very happy many others here agree on this.
So I see in the core of this lies an effort of being logical. I enjoy using English maybe because it lets me, probably more effortfully, manupilate form, syntax and concepts, which gives me a sense of order.
Being logical, in my opinion, can be achieved without using words as defined in dictionary*, which I see as an illogical use of language, admitting that I was a bit of a stickler to dictionary definitions myself as a child; modern linguists are able to show you that insisting on prescriptive use goes against the very nature of natural language. Of course you can nicely stick to the algorithm in artificial language. Plz note though, the above does not imply that no pedants can be prescriptive in their use of language, I'm just saying it seems illogical to me.
*Though this arguement tends to be futile if you don't define what kind of dictionary you want to talk about, because there're now those based on language corpus, which means these dictionaries are 'descriptive' rather than 'prescriptive'.
Has anyone here seen a comedy clip (British, recent few years) where some white coats throw themselves in an uncontrollable fit of laughter over a tongue trip of a tech term? Something to the effect of 'Did you actually say esotwric instead of esoteric?'
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WHITEDRAGON
You obviously possess a pedants license, grade one.
Oh, and I am horrifically clumsy. I mistypw all the time.
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Thanks, that's what I thought. I can see how I am pedantic; strangely enough, I never saw it with a negative connotation, just someone who prefers accuracy and facts.
I never take it as an insult anymore.
I just say, "Thank you!"
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I'm seriously gonna have to start using "apothegmatical" though...
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I may have to include "apothemagiticale" too, so long as this lysdexis aspie does not have to spell it!
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Who is John Galt?
Still Moofy after all these years
It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion
cynicism occurs immediately upon pressing your brain's start button
I was not a member of the beneficent world of WP when this thread was instituted. I still fervently hope, however, to importune you all for membership into the Pedantic Speech Fan Club. I list as my qualifications the following:
*Awarded a Best Friend Outburst of Anger at age 11 for using words too advanced for my best friend to understand
*Throughout the years of my life i have had the ability to correct nearly every teacher and author i have encountered concerning matters of vocabulary and writing
*Awarded Spousal Infuriation multiple times over the years for demanding precision in all incoming and outgoing communication
*Awarded Offspring Infuriation multiple times over the years for demanding precision in all incoming and outgoing communication
I do hereby, and with these incompressible credentials, do substantiate my claim to membership.
ahh. correcting teachers, I love that part
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