I say that I’m against the exercise of absolute power, but if I were offered the ability to edit apostrophe use in other people’s posts, I would absolutely take it. 😈

#punctuation #pedantry

Stop conflating external human genitalia of the dangly variety with guts/a spine.

They really don't correlate. Anyone can be a coward, lacking integrity, or instead a confident, respectable and brave person.

It's FA to do with what's in your pants.
And balls are notoriously fragile anyway so it makes no sense.
#language #sexism #pedantry

Advice for snobs (like me): “Pedantry and poetry often go together: if a comma splice screeches like nails on a chalkboard, it’s perhaps because a well-timed colon sings to you like Ella Fitzgerald.“ BUT… “nitpicking “bad” stuff rarely helps. It just makes you seem like an obnoxious elitist. Sorry.”

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2021/05/28/advice-for-snobs/
#pedantry #maths

@htw Yes, but as an over 18, can I drink *before* 6pm?
#pedantry

Just read someone make a remark about "an unfortunate encounter with the noisy end of a shotgun." The noisy end is the end that points *away* from the target.

#pedantry

@trick Surely the Barca hashtag should be #FCBarcelona or #FCB?

#Pedantry

Peanut butter

#pedantry #clickBait #humor

@SleepyCatten @foolisholivia Loving gay girls does not imply lack of love for bi girls. #Logic #Pedantry

Unless the audio recording was made with a tape recorder onto magnetic reeled media, the “tapes” that newscasters keep referencing are not “tapes”. They are digital recordings. They, of all people, should know this.

#news #grammar #pedantry

@harald this is how you get on my blocklist #pedantry

For the record, it's "A belated happy birthday," not "happy belated birthday." My birthday wasn't delayed; your wish that I have a happy birthday was.

If you wish to retract such wish, I totally get it. #birthday #pedantry

Carvel ice cream cake. *

IS IT CAKE?!

Discuss.

* Just ice cream, cookie crumbles, and frozen whipped cream frosting.

#cake #gastrotaxonomy #Carvel #pedantry

@twbrandt or ummm...

no I can't do it...

no I have to...

or a symmetric distribution of any kind, like uniform

or you know anything with no skewness

but yes! #pedantry

I get really annoyed when someone says “50% of <whatever> are below average.”

No, 50% of some population are not below average, they are less than the median. The only time 50% are below average is when you have a normal distribution, which rarely happens in real life.

#pedantry

The location of #Gondor when the Westfold fell.

#LOTR
#Denethor
#Cartography
#Pedantry

When journalists still haven't adapted to chronological concepts.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-16/living-review-bill-nighy-british-drama-movie-aimee-lou-wood/102094392

>With a screenplay by Japanese British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, Living transposes Kurosawa's Tokyo setting to a storybook version of mid-century London: a swarm of bowler hats and black cabs hurrying down cobblestoned streets

Mid-century, you say? Ok then, so this is a sci-fi work set around 2040 - 2060'ish. Good to know. I wonder if Kurosawa would be surprised? 🤷‍♀️

#pedantry 😜

#Pedantry: it’s Daylight Saving. No s. We aren’t opening a bank account, we’re saving an hour of daylight for the end of the day instead of in the morning.

Daylight saving time. (noun) An antiquated practice for a country with ~universal electric lit homes and children walking to school in the dark with SUVs and trucks with hoods six feet off the ground.

I wish people understood that emotive and emotional mean different things. #english #pedantry

Apparently instead of learning the #ukulele, I should have stuck with my childhood ambition of learning to play the #banjo - I could be making "several dollars" by now! (The problem is that banjos are more expensive than ukuleles.)

#pedantry: It looks to me like the guy in the picture is playing a #banjolele, not a banjo.

It's "have", not "of" you "would of" uttering muppets!!

Thanks for attending my TED Talk

#catharsis
#pedantry