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A special pendant you wear which declares that you are an expert in all
things grammatical and will shamelessly correct any errors you
encounter.
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//Pedant's// So, only for one pedant, then? |
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Punditry: I do not think that word means what you think it means. |
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Pedant and pundit are close in definition. |
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Punditry: a source of opinion; a critic. |
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Also initiation to a group or organisation. |
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A pendant (a piece of jewelry typically worn around the neck)
worn by a pedant (someone who is excessively concerned with
formalism or precision) to declare his affinity for punditry (ie, for
disseminating his pedantic ravings broadly). Make sense to ya
now? |
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Your title is wrong. It should read: Pendant of
pedant's punditry. |
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Also, it is one of the very worst typographical errors to use “'” instead of “’”. |
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So, the pendant performs the dissemination? Would
that be artificial dissemination, in this case? |
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It is a clever trick, sir or madam, to bait the aspiring pedant by means of splitting the auxillary verb 'will' from the associated verb 'correct', but nobody here is going to fall for your obvious trap by criticising this perfectly acceptable sentence structure, I'm afraid.
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Would my wearing a pedant's pendant signify also that I will not correct people in the absence of any 'errors'? |
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No. To assume that it did would be an appeal to probability. |
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Well then, it is worth pointing out that you have used the word 'which' in an essential clause, 'pendant you wear which...', and the correct grammar is 'pendant you wear that...' |
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I'd just like to point out that one can be pedantic
without necessarily being right. |
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I'd like a Pedants Pendulating Pendant of Punditry |
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Oooh... it could, perhaps, be pandemonious as well. |
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Is this related to a grammarian's gewgaw of gentility?
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A blusterer's bracelet of buffoonery?
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A linguist's lanyard of literalism?
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I'll wear mine next to my faultfinder's flag of fussiness |
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A dork's diadem of declaration, A bitch's
brooch of bossiness... |
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From the Pirates of Pedanzance;
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I have the merry twaddle of an English-Major Enema,
I've information extrema, anathema, and dénouement,
I know the rules of English, and my quotes can be quite boorical,
from manuscripts to hieroglyphs, in orders scategorical;
I'm very not untainted, too, with matters non-grammatical,
I detest aberrations, whether whimple or fanatical,
As for dangling participles I'm reaming out the lot of youse,
with diction most exact because your prose seem to have gotten loose... |
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[+] [2fries] ... but "youse". |
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//the correct grammar is 'pendant you wear that...'// ... only if you believe the MS Office grammar checker, which, personally, I don't. |
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Argot adjuster's amulet of accomplishment.
Blathering bickerer's bracelet of bravery.
Communication corrector's claim of conquest.
Discourse decider's decoration of deeds done |
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Experienced Educer's Emblem of Excellence
Fecking Fearsome Fella's Fing of Fecking Fing |
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Twat's Tupee of Totalitarianism. |
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Heckler's heyday hat
Imposers insignia of incompetence |
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