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    #26
    Pedants are wrong

    No.

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      #27
      Pedants are wrong

      More importantly, where is the "Pendants are wrong" thread?

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        #28
        Pedants are wrong

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        No.
        Ah.

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          #29
          Pedants are wrong

          I have to admit that most of those flew over my head as I ignore most of the rules anyway (you may have noticed)

          The main way I feel that pedants are wrong is that they correct people on grammatical mistakes whereas I understand that it is better just to use better grammar yourself as a good example.

          This is certainly the case in teaching children, as I understand it.

          I can't help feeling that a knowledge of coolons and semi-colons may have been useful in that second paragraph

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            #30
            Pedants are wrong

            They can't write a sentence with more than a dozen words in it.

            A blustering oaf at work tried to ban me from writing any sentence with more than eight words in it. ("People don't wanna read flowery language. They wanna read Feature, Function, Benefit!" )

            Even when I pointed out that at least five-eighths of any sentence would be taken up by the name of the product I was writing about, he still didn't shut it.

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              #31
              Pedants are wrong

              I can't help feeling that a knowledge of coolons and semi-colons may have been useful in that second paragraph
              Why would LED lighting specialists have helped? Would they have illuminated your meaning?
              Arf arf

              http://www.coolon.com.au/

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                #32
                Pedants are wrong

                I used to write technical manuals for a company that had the rule that no sentence could have more than 21 words in it (actually, you could get a dispensation to write a 24-word sentence, but you had to apply to a senior director for permission). The reason was that much of the documentation had to be translated and they wanted to use translation software to do as much of the work as possible. The discipline worked: it forced you to confine each sentence to expressing a single idea. Not only did it aid the translation work, it resulted in documentation that was clearly expressed and free from difficult-to-follow conditionals and similar constructions.

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                  #33
                  Pedants are wrong

                  Hmm, yes, very droll (said in a Stephen Fry manner)

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                    #34
                    Pedants are wrong

                    First 3 are bollocks, 4th is meh, and I have never, EVER heard of a worry concerning the 5th.

                    Internet toss. Who cares? (although, like now, I started a sentence in my English O Grade with But, and sorted the invigilators out about it. Didnt matter, I can still spoke England grater than yow)

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