One 4 the grammar pedants

Coriander

DonDaddyD wrote:

I might just order some bike stuff to work so that I can fit in.

Was that (the above) pedantically correct?

It's not pedantically correct, it's just correct. Pedantically correct is tautologous.

Christophe3967

jashburnham wrote:

DonDaddyD wrote:

Truism, maxim, idiom, surely, therewith, henceforth, hitherto?

Are you guys still speaking in English?

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Indubitably.

Christophe3967

Coriander wrote:

DonDaddyD wrote:

I might just order some bike stuff to work so that I can fit in.

Was that (the above) pedantically correct?

It's not pedantically correct, it's just correct. Pedantically correct is tautologous.

Not to mention pleonastic or circumlocutionary.

Underscore

DonDaddyD wrote:

I might just order some bike stuff to work so that I can fit in.

I just had a wonderful image of you, standing in front of a pile of mech's, wheels and pedals, shouting "Work, godammit, work!". However, I'm not sure how that would help you fit in anything in particular.

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P.S. Ooh, "mech's" (with the apostrophe indicating the contraction from mechanisms); is that right or have I learned that my true vocation is as a greengrocer?

Christophe3967

Underscore wrote:

DonDaddyD wrote:

I might just order some bike stuff to work so that I can fit in.

I just had a wonderful image of you, standing in front of a pile of mech's, wheels and pedals, shouting "Work, godammit, work!". However, I'm not sure how that would help you fit in anything in particular.

_

P.S. Ooh, "mech's" (with the apostrophe indicating the contraction from mechanisms); is that right or have I learned that my true vocation is as a greengrocer?

il_principe

Underscore wrote:

DonDaddyD wrote:

I might just order some bike stuff to work so that I can fit in.

I just had a wonderful image of you, standing in front of a pile of mech's, wheels and pedals, shouting "Work, godammit, work!". However, I'm not sure how that would help you fit in anything in particular.

Like a Halfrauds mechanic then?

lost_in_thought

Underscore wrote:

DonDaddyD wrote:

I might just order some bike stuff to work so that I can fit in.

I just had a wonderful image of you, standing in front of a pile of mech's, wheels and pedals, shouting "Work, godammit, work!". However, I'm not sure how that would help you fit in anything in particular.

_

P.S. Ooh, "mech's" (with the apostrophe indicating the contraction from mechanisms); is that right or have I learned that my true vocation is as a greengrocer?

Oooooh good one on 'mech's'. I like it!

andrewjoseph

Christophe3967 wrote:

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Not to mention pleonastic or circumlocutionary.

I had that done when I was a kid,, I mean child, i was never the offspring of even toed ungulates.