@richard_merren

“Pedantic” is my middle name!

Yes, my full name is Truth Pedantic Sandwich, but that’s a bit of a mouthful, so I stick to Truth Sandwich. People mostly call me Sandwich, when they call me anything at all.

Revanchism seems to be more broad, and is concerned with relitigating past losses that they refuse to accept as legitimate. In a sense, the 1/6 coup was revanchist.

Irredentism is about wanting to unite petty kingdoms. Putin certainly sees Ukraine as just another Russian-speaking territory that, by all rights, belongs under the umbrella of Moscow.

So both fit, but irredentism is more precise, if perhaps less likely to be understood.

#politics #terminology #pedantic

Don't say HDRI images, as the I at the end is Image.
So say HDRI or HDR images.
Thank-you!
#pedantic

@samwyse “In 1967/1968, Resolution 3 of the 13th CGPM renamed the unit increment of thermodynamic temperature ‘kelvin,’ symbol K, replacing ‘degree Kelvin,’ symbol °K”

#pedantic

@garius Interesting thread, but .....

Since when did "coup" become a verb ??? 🤔

(Yes I know "couper" is a verb in French, but this thread appears to be in English)
#pedantic #grammar

@fulelo

That's not a great headline, personally.

I don't dispute the science but there are clearly different degrees of "less" meat eating, which will determine the equivalence to how many million cars taken off the road
#pedantic i know, sorry!
#meat

My #ActuallyAutistic, ultra #pedantic, nitpick today:

/ is a slash, or forward-slash if you must.

\ is a backslash.

And because I have a migraine:

() are parentheses. One of them alone is a parenthesis.

{} are braces. “Curly” is redundant, but also clear, so fine.

[] are brackets. Not square braces.

In the comics there are quite a few people who take up the mantle of The Flash, The Atom, The Green Lantern, etc. Many of them exist at the same time.

Should they introduce themselves as A Flash, An Atom, or A Green Lantern?

Why yes, my I just changed my blood pressure meds. Why do you ask?

#Comics #Pedantic

I think Secret Invasion’s writers mean “Heads of Government” here and not “Heads of State.” Otherwise it’s really weird if the UK Prime Minister is attending a European crisis summit with an assortment of largely ceremonial Presidents, Kings, Queens, and Grand Dukes.
#SecretInvasion #Marvel #DisneyPlus #Pedantic #RevoltingPedants #NitPicking #HeadsOfState #HeadsOfGovernment #Ceremonial #Executive

My irational pet peeve: Using “4D” to mean “something happens outside the screen”

1) That is still the third dimension
2) All 3D screens are already fourth dimensional, on account of them not being still images.

#pedantic #ShowerThoughts

@CodingItWrong Scuba masks cover the nose!

#pedantic

Hey:

When titling Reddit/forum posts, “How to [task]” means you are giving a tutorial on how to do something.

If you are asking a question, the title should be “How do I [task]?”

#pedantic

Happy second day of #DaylightSavingTime

(It’s *not* #DaylightSavingTime: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-savings-time.html)

#DST #PrincessBride #meme #pedantic

#EnoughIsEnough, just a thought #Solidarity implies sticking together #Unity implies changing together. Am I being #pedantic? https://twitter.com/herefordrob/status/1475020894892437507?t=teNXGxLCS34_t_6i5n-LKQ&s=09

@khalidabuhakmeh Technically, you are not awaiting the method, but the result 🤓
#Pedantic

@BasicAppleGuy @bigzaphod hmm, the birth of the World Wide Web, not the Internet ;)

#Pedantic

For absolutely no reason I just remembered:

When I got married, the marriage officer saying "...and bless the children you may or may not have"

So I was standing there in this solemn moment having to do my best not to blurt out "um sorry, bless the children I may not have? How does that work???"

#pedantic #ActuallyAutistic

The word Nuclear is pronounced, new-clear, not noo-killer

#justsaying
#pedantic

@aljazeera 'quite literally found the needle in the haystack' - strange, I thought they found a radioactive capsule by the side of the road 🤔
#literally #english #pedantic

Some materials engineer needs to let 🛤️railroads🛤️ know that a railroad spikes made of gold are a serious safety problem; gold is far to soft to be suitable for that application. #pedantic

It has always annoyed me that many systems are designed with a digital chip (e.g. microprocessor or microcontroller) that has a particular maximum clock frequency specification, and run it from a crystal specified at that exact frequency. Doing so ensures that there's about a 50% chance that the chip is being operated beyond its rated specifications.
#pedantic