#pedant — Public Fediverse posts

Gotta love the little personal touches, really makes me feel valued as a customer ❤️

(I've just noticed that How is capitalised, after the comma on the previous line, and now I'm more triggered by that.)

#VirginMedia #undefined #pedant

Gotta love the little personal touches, really makes me feel valued as a customer ❤️

(I've just noticed that How is capitalised, after the comma on the previous line, and now I'm more triggered by that.)

#VirginMedia #undefined #pedant

Gotta love the little personal touches, really makes me feel valued as a customer ❤️

(I've just noticed that How is capitalised, after the comma on the previous line, and now I'm more triggered by that.)

#VirginMedia #undefined #pedant

Gotta love the little personal touches, really makes me feel valued as a customer ❤️

(I've just noticed that How is capitalised, after the comma on the previous line, and now I'm more triggered by that.)

#VirginMedia #undefined #pedant

Gotta love the little personal touches, really makes me feel valued as a customer ❤️

(I've just noticed that How is capitalised, after the comma on the previous line, and now I'm more triggered by that.)

#VirginMedia #undefined #pedant

@LifeTimeCooking

Thank you for not calling them "seeds." 😄

#Pedant

FEWER than 20 devs. #pedant

https://flipboard.com/@ign/gaming-news-and-reviews-s4u82mu1z/-/a-16ze3xaMSySAGa-Y7mUtBQ%3Aa%3A4274664-%2F0

ℹ️ Dia Mundial del Periodista❗❗

Si una persona diu que plou i una altra diu que no, el teu treball de periodista NO és donar veu a les dues❗❗
És obrir la puta finestra i mirar si està plovent.

#DiadelPeriodista
#DiaMundialdelPeriodista
#DiaInternacionaldelPeriodista
#informació #informaciócerta #informaciófiable #informaciócontrastada
#̶e̶n̶g̶a̶n̶y̶ #̶i̶n̶t̶o̶x̶i̶c̶a̶c̶i̶ó̶ #f̶a̶l̶s̶e̶j̶a̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ #̶m̶a̶n̶i̶p̶u̶l̶a̶c̶i̶ó̶ #d̶e̶s̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶c̶i̶ó̶
#p̶e̶d̶a̶n̶t̶ #t̶e̶r̶t̶u̶l̶i̶à̶ #L̶l̶o̶n̶d̶r̶o̶ #s̶a̶b̶e̶r̶u̶t̶ #p̶e̶d̶a̶n̶t̶s̶ #s̶a̶b̶e̶r̶u̶t̶s̶̶ #O̶p̶i̶n̶a̶d̶o̶r̶ #O̶p̶i̶n̶a̶d̶o̶r̶s̶ #s̶a̶b̶e̶l̶o̶t̶o̶d̶o̶ #s̶e̶t̶c̶i̶è̶n̶c̶i̶e̶s̶

@ricardo

I'm not an AI, but I can absolutely simplify "regex expressions" to just "regex" or "regular expressions," because otherwise, you're saying "regular expressions expressions." XD

#snark #pedant

You have no idea how much I have to bite my tongue when I see someone type 'viola' instead of 'voila'

#Pedant #Spelling #Music #Humour

Anyone else just handed their partner this (or a similar) article? https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/16/abba-outfits-tax-deduction-bjorn-ulvaeus
#pedant

@fesshole (it’s called a wallpaper, a screen saver is something else) #pedant

Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

#Linguists. Students of language.

You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

#FFS.

#pedant #unhelpful #rant

Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

#Linguists. Students of language.

You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

#FFS.

#pedant #unhelpful #rant

Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

#Linguists. Students of language.

You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

#FFS.

#pedant #unhelpful #rant

Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

#Linguists. Students of language.

You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

#FFS.

#pedant #unhelpful #rant

Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

#Linguists. Students of language.

You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

#FFS.

#pedant #unhelpful #rant

@james
You did pretty good.
I'm a card-carrying #Pedant who started off with two minor re-wordings but then things got completely out of hand. 🙄

#language #semiotics #pedant re: Il Papa, 'the good shepherd'. i. The clue is in the word, 'herd' not 'lead' ii. Leo? A lion in the sheepfold , o lawks ! #catholicos ! #justsaying #militant_methodist #wesleyan 🤔 🙏

#language #semiotics #pedant re: Il Papa, 'the good shepherd'. i. The clue is in the word, 'herd' not 'lead' ii. Leo? A lion in the sheepfold , o lawks ! #catholicos ! #justsaying #militant_methodist #wesleyan 🤔 🙏

#language #semiotics #pedant re: Il Papa, 'the good shepherd'. i. The clue is in the word, 'herd' not 'lead' ii. Leo? A lion in the sheepfold , o lawks ! #catholicos ! #justsaying #militant_methodist #wesleyan 🤔 🙏

#language #semiotics #pedant re: Il Papa, 'the good shepherd'. i. The clue is in the word, 'herd' not 'lead' ii. Leo? A lion in the sheepfold , o lawks ! #catholicos ! #justsaying #militant_methodist #wesleyan 🤔 🙏

#language #semiotics #pedant re: Il Papa, 'the good shepherd'. i. The clue is in the word, 'herd' not 'lead' ii. Leo? A lion in the sheepfold , o lawks ! #catholicos ! #justsaying #militant_methodist #wesleyan 🤔 🙏

@solusspider

Hi, local joke-ruining pedant reporting!

There are actually printers that print in white (as well as CMYK) for things such as transparencies.

Ok, toodles!

#pedant

cc: @amin

"Rachel Reeves has three options to dodge an economic crisis and all are unthinkable"

This headline is rubbish. They've written about them, so clearly they *are* thinkable. The writers thought about them. The options may be unconscionable perhaps. But they're evidently not unthinkable.

#pedant #LazyJournalism #LazyWriting
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/15/rachel-reeves-has-three-options-to-dodge-an-economic-crisis-and-all-are-unthinkable?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

@farah
💯agree with you

Tangentially related: the etymology and context of the word #pedant began with pedagogy and education.

A true pedant is never a thief of #joy.

Outbound emails from Webmail are now being signed as well. As are system emails (which use `pickup` rather than an SMTP port).

Now to leave it a while to make sure that it's okay with the IPv4 relays etc, and then I can strengthen the DMARC record in DNS 🙂

Probably makes bugger all difference, but at least I'll now be Doing It Correctly™ and that is a Very Important Thing™.

#SysAdmin #Email #Geek #Pedant

#English #pedant venting, because I've seen it multiple times today:

"Whence" means "from where". "From whence" thus means "from from where".

Word choice matters.

(memer unknown)

*Edited for spelling, because that matters too. 😬

#Language #Grammar #Pedant #Funny

@ThisIsTrue That piano wouldn't play. Too many black keys. #pedant #sorry

Them: "So, this calls for vegetable stock and ..."

Definitely-not-me: "Broth."

Them: "... what?"

Definitely-not-me: "Stock is made from bones. If there's no bones in it, it's broth, not stock."

Them: O_o

Definitely-not-me: "Do carrots, celery, and onions have bones?"

Them: "... Why are you like this?"

#pedant #cooking #chef #PITA #stock #broth #bones #soup

My electricity provider doesn’t charge to send me bills, so the bills can’t be made any cheaper.
Lower bills would be a different matter.

#grammar #pedant #lowerNotCheaper

@aaronesilvers guess I’m a traditionalist. Tacos belong in soft corn tortillas. Hard shells are an American invention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard-shell_taco Look, I’m all for wonderful food mashups, but it seems to smack a bit of cultural appropriation, no? #pedant #tonguefirmlyincheek

These are my people.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/05/north-yorkshires-dropped-apostrophe-for-street-signs-upsets-residents

#pedant #grammar #apostrophe

The pedant in me absolutely loves that the solstice is actually today (the 22nd). A few seconds and so many wrong people. It’s beautiful. Harmless, but beautiful.
#pedant #solstice #solstice2023

So, I’m not a vision researcher, but #Futurama that is not where the visual cortex is. Fry needed to wear a Vision Pro or something with the back strap to be near it. #Pedant

#Neuroscience #Audiology #AuditoryNeuroscience #Research #Science #NoiseExposure #SpeechInNoise #HiddenHearingLoss

I am LIVID. Let's take it outside, G-Mail.

#grammar #data #datum #DataIsPlural #pedant

I am LIVID. Let's take it outside, G-Mail.

#grammar #data #datum #DataIsPlural #pedant

I am LIVID. Let's take it outside, G-Mail.

#grammar #data #datum #DataIsPlural #pedant

I am LIVID. Let's take it outside, G-Mail.

#grammar #data #datum #DataIsPlural #pedant

I am LIVID. Let's take it outside, G-Mail.

#grammar #data #datum #DataIsPlural #pedant

*picks up "Great Ideas" notebook to put it away*

THAT'S WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY!

Flicking through my notebook (I try to write things down when I watch an #OReilly #SuperStream or read a tech book, so I remember it more and can reference it in future).

And… NOOOOO! I wrote three things from "Effective Python" on a right-hand page, and then the pages must have been stuck together because I've just found a blank spread of pages before the rest of the notes from the book 😭

#GeekProblems #Pedant

*picks up "Great Ideas" notebook to put it away*

THAT'S WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY!

Flicking through my notebook (I try to write things down when I watch an #OReilly #SuperStream or read a tech book, so I remember it more and can reference it in future).

And… NOOOOO! I wrote three things from "Effective Python" on a right-hand page, and then the pages must have been stuck together because I've just found a blank spread of pages before the rest of the notes from the book 😭

#GeekProblems #Pedant

The fir die-off here in Oregon is a big, important story, and I'm glad it's getting national attention, but I am 100% against the name "firmageddon". It sounds like firms are dying, not trees. If we absolutely have to use this name, can I please buy a hyphen? #firmageddon #fir-mageddon #pedant #funatparties
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/20/1143532629/oregon-megadrought-dead-fir-trees-forest-service-aerial-survey?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social