#pedants — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pedants, aggregated by home.social.
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"The #book is full of useful considerations for #pedants hoping to be less irritating, but Visser ultimately considers that irritation the cost of doing business: Worthwhile #intellectual #work is unavoidably challenging, and sometimes even unpleasant." hedgehogreview.com/issues/human...
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"The #book is full of useful considerations for #pedants hoping to be less irritating, but Visser ultimately considers that irritation the cost of doing business: Worthwhile #intellectual #work is unavoidably challenging, and sometimes even unpleasant." hedgehogreview.com/issues/human...
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"The #book is full of useful considerations for #pedants hoping to be less irritating, but Visser ultimately considers that irritation the cost of doing business: Worthwhile #intellectual #work is unavoidably challenging, and sometimes even unpleasant." hedgehogreview.com/issues/human...
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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 -
Schmuckanhänger
Pendant
September 2025
3d Rendering -> https://www.goehde.com/fotos/index.php?/category/265#schmuck #anhänger #digitalart #blender #3d #rendering # #digital #3dRendering #jewelry #pedants #art #b3d
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Schmuckanhänger
Pendant
September 2025
3d Rendering -> https://www.goehde.com/fotos/index.php?/category/265#schmuck #anhänger #digitalart #blender #3d #rendering # #digital #3dRendering #jewelry #pedants #art #b3d
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Schmuckanhänger
Pendant
September 2025
3d Rendering -> https://www.goehde.com/fotos/index.php?/category/265#schmuck #anhänger #digitalart #blender #3d #rendering # #digital #3dRendering #jewelry #pedants #art #b3d
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Schmuckanhänger
Pendant
September 2025
3d Rendering -> https://www.goehde.com/fotos/index.php?/category/265#schmuck #anhänger #digitalart #blender #3d #rendering # #digital #3dRendering #jewelry #pedants #art #b3d
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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also: #pedants please don’t tell me samaritans are distinct from palestinians. i had that fight with my grade school teachers years ago. i insisted that both historically and ethnographically (i was a #pedantic kid) they were wrong, but their ethical point remains:
someone was in dire need, and you passed on by, doing nothing.
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CW: long post on accessibility advice from a blind screen reader user
@Cassana in #programming they call that #CamelCase (or #PascalCase for the #Pedants) to describe using the first letter of each crushed-together word as an indicator that there's a word border.
They have totally different motivations to do so, but you can communicate the whole idea with like two words. :)
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CW: long post on accessibility advice from a blind screen reader user
@Cassana in #programming they call that #CamelCase (or #PascalCase for the #Pedants) to describe using the first letter of each crushed-together word as an indicator that there's a word border.
They have totally different motivations to do so, but you can communicate the whole idea with like two words. :)
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CW: long post on accessibility advice from a blind screen reader user
@Cassana in #programming they call that #CamelCase (or #PascalCase for the #Pedants) to describe using the first letter of each crushed-together word as an indicator that there's a word border.
They have totally different motivations to do so, but you can communicate the whole idea with like two words. :)
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CW: long post on accessibility advice from a blind screen reader user
@Cassana in #programming they call that #CamelCase (or #PascalCase for the #Pedants) to describe using the first letter of each crushed-together word as an indicator that there's a word border.
They have totally different motivations to do so, but you can communicate the whole idea with like two words. :)
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CW: long post on accessibility advice from a blind screen reader user
@Cassana in #programming they call that #CamelCase (or #PascalCase for the #Pedants) to describe using the first letter of each crushed-together word as an indicator that there's a word border.
They have totally different motivations to do so, but you can communicate the whole idea with like two words. :)
