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Old 04-17-2015, 11:13 AM   #136
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Hey, if people are reduced to criticizing me on spelling errors rather than poking holes in my logic, then I'm doing pretty good.
What if we decide to criticize both?
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Old 04-17-2015, 11:30 AM   #137
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I can understand typos, I can understand not knowing any better, but I can't comprehend a reader not caring if they're not using the correct word or not. *shrug*

But I'm done. As I said, I never intended to be the grammar police. It's only the continued (and consistent) misuse of the same words that makes my inner cop manifest.

Stagnant water.
Water can stagnate.

Dominant player.
Players can dominate.

That is all.
The purpose of language is to communicate. English didn't have a standard spelling until the 1800's (arguably up through the 1900's), but somehow we managed to communicate. There are six known surviving signatures written by Shakespeare. None of them are spelled the same including three on the same document (his will).

When I am writing a quick post on a web board during a work break, I'm not going to take the time to look up the spelling or usage of a word, unless I think that I need to in order to get my point across. If I'm writing for work, then I check.
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Old 04-17-2015, 08:50 PM   #138
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Who made you the grammar police. Or is that the grammatical police?
That should have been:

Who made you the grammar police? Or is that the grammatical police?
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Old 04-17-2015, 10:19 PM   #139
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Old 04-18-2015, 01:14 AM   #140
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Stagnate = verb
Stagnant = adjective

We've had this conversion before.
Pedant = noun
Pedate = verb

I hope no further conversion will be requited.
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Old 04-18-2015, 01:53 AM   #141
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verb = noun
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Old 04-18-2015, 09:35 AM   #142
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Yes. Pointing out one person's two grammatical errors in my time at MR absolutely makes me a pedant. I buy that.
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Old 04-18-2015, 09:55 AM   #143
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Old 04-18-2015, 10:23 AM   #144
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Yes. Pointing out one person's two grammatical errors in my time at MR absolutely makes me a pedant. I buy that.
Better than a pendant.
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Old 04-18-2015, 10:30 AM   #145
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That brings up a good question: could one correct someone (hypothetically) on the internet who called them a "pendant" without worsening their "pendantic" reputation? Or is grammar the one area on the internet where one has absolutely zero corrective "wiggle-room" before being branded with the scarlet "P"?
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Old 04-18-2015, 10:59 AM   #146
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Or than being his friends.
They would be Pedant philes .
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And we have a winner.
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