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Offline Little Jo

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Re: RESIDENT PEDANT
« Reply #20 on: March 04, 2009, 21:42:24 »
Quote from: Richard on March 02, 2009, 15:24:21
Do we need a Resident Pedant? (or maybe two?) ... ;)

What is a "resident pedant"?

(I'm not joking, this is a serious meant question; I really do not know and my dictionary does not give any meaningful answer to me ...   ???)
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Re: RESIDENT PEDANT
« Reply #21 on: March 05, 2009, 00:07:12 »
:hmm: i think richard has a hiden objective - he wants to change this forum's official language to esperanto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto).
 :P would this be such a "freneza" idea?
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Re: RESIDENT PEDANT
« Reply #22 on: March 05, 2009, 06:20:40 »
Quote from: cachalote on March 05, 2009, 00:07:12
[...] to esperanto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto).

"is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language in the world." -- this sounds interesting. Isn't Esperanto the only constructed international auxiliary language in the world?!? BTW I never met somebody who spoke it ...  :hmm:

Still kept in nescience -- can anybody enlight me and rescue me from stupidity by telling me shortly please what a "resident pedant" is?
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Re: RESIDENT PEDANT
« Reply #23 on: March 05, 2009, 07:11:31 »
Quote from: Little Jo on March 04, 2009, 21:42:24
What is a "resident pedant"?

(I'm not joking, this is a serious meant question; I really do not know and my dictionary does not give any meaningful answer to me ...   ???)

A resident is someone who lives in a particular place.  For example, you are a resident of Southern Germany.  A pendant is someone who is always on the lookout for errors made by others in writing or speech and then pointing out what they should have written or said.  So a resident pedant would be a PF member with the job of checking people's posts for errors and then either correcting them or saying how they should be corrected.  Now I'm not sure that's what Richard really meant.  What he probably intended was someone having the job of making clear what people had said in posts which were unclear because of, say, mistypes or spelling errors.
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Re: RESIDENT PEDANT
« Reply #24 on: March 05, 2009, 08:08:32 »
Quote from: playmofire on March 05, 2009, 07:11:31
What he probably intended was someone having the job of making clear what people had said in posts which were unclear because of, say, mistypes or spelling errors.

or complete lack of punctuation i never met anyone who spoke esperanto or even claimed a working knowledge of it lol


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Re: RESIDENT PEDANT
« Reply #25 on: March 05, 2009, 08:10:19 »
Quote from: playmofire on March 05, 2009, 07:11:31
Now I'm not sure that's what Richard really meant.  What he probably intended was someone having the job of making clear what people had said in posts which were unclear because of, say, mistypes or spelling errors.

Wait a minute...if you're not sure what Richard who speaks english meant, how is anyone able to assume the role of RP?  We are not even sure what Richard meant and are now venturing to guess his probable intention!

I love the irony!   :lol:
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Re: RESIDENT PEDANT
« Reply #26 on: March 05, 2009, 12:03:38 »
Quote from: Martin Milner on March 05, 2009, 08:08:32
or complete lack of punctuation i never met anyone who spoke esperanto or even claimed a working knowledge of it lol




The exam board I used to work for offered a GCSE in Esperanto so I met one or two people who spoke, read and wrote Esperanto.  The number of entries was very small each year and tended to be people who had already passed the exam but were now taking it again to try and improve their grade.  Presumably, once they'd reached Grade a (the top grade in those days, there was no A*) they gave up.
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Re: RESIDENT PEDANT
« Reply #27 on: March 05, 2009, 12:10:30 »
Quote from: nicki72 on March 04, 2009, 15:11:26
tee hee! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Interestingly enough, the human brain can compensate for most errors anyways (see example here:http://photoblog.mrjmw.com/can-your-brain-read-this/ ) and since this is such a friendly group, I'm sure that any language issues can be overcome!  :yup:

If I only had a brain....! Which my wife said is saturated with Playmobil, & has warped mine beyond repair, something about addition,....did I spell everything OK?, how's my grammar?, now I'm Paranoid!!
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Re: RESIDENT PEDANT
« Reply #28 on: March 05, 2009, 12:11:02 »
Quote from: Klickus Mobilius on March 05, 2009, 08:10:19
Wait a minute...if you're not sure what Richard who speaks english meant, how is anyone able to assume the role of RP?  We are not even sure what Richard meant and are now venturing to guess his probable intention!

I love the irony!   :lol:

Yes, you're quite right - one of the problems of trying to have a conversation in written form!

Usually, if you call someone a pedant you mean that they are complaining and criticising over minor, unimportant things which do not actually make any difference to the meaning or clarity of what is being written or said.  For example, to say "This box is different to that one" is just as understandable as to say "This box is different from that one", but a pedant would argue that the first sentence is wrong because you should always say "different from".  Now, I'm sure Richard wasn't looking for people to make comments or changes like that.  Maybe he was really meaning an editor or redactor.
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Re: RESIDENT PEDANT
« Reply #29 on: March 05, 2009, 12:14:43 »
Quote from: Rasputin on March 03, 2009, 15:50:23
Me tooo Bil I tink we reed betr now  :lol:

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