In light of a recent comment on my signature I deceided to open this thread.
So How pedantic are you? Me myself I can be at times and I am awful in chat for picking on people for mis spellings etc, but yee all know I love yee feckers and I never mean any harm in it.
Titan,
For my part, I am a fecker for peoples mispellings including my own! Ask any member of the Brekkie Club, they will tell you. But its all harmless fun
In texts and chat people should be forgiven, as it is usually spelled quickly and is more likely to be a type-o. But there is a place i pass regularly with a big sign above the door ending in Center, I often feel like stopping in and asking them to change it to the correct Centre. Drives me nuts.
Pedantic ... some people would describe it as being Anal... but I do agree that on signs, documents, & in newspapers there is no excuse for mis-spelling or for using American spellings.
I am still a little old fashioned so tend not to abbreviate too much in text or chat, but in these areas it is acceptable & in chat I have been know to have the odd dsylectic finger or two.
Alan... can I just point out a very small...
Actually, never mind.
*mutters to self* thou shalt switch thine inner editor off when not working, thou shalt switch thine inner editor off when not working... :grin:
Imagine, a session with Boo:
"Oh my god, I'm coming, I'm coming!"
Boo: "Actually, that should be 'I'm about to come, I'm about to come'. Continuous tense indicates an action that is mff mhmph..."
"Honey, I'm not normally into bondage, but for both of our sakes, keep that gag in your mouth."
Boo :laughabove:
I must agree here,,Padds is a right bollix for it....:sparring:
God Yes, I just remebered text talk in chat drives me cracked. I always use predictive when I write texts myself...ok Let me breath into this paper bag as I calm down.
Latina........:thumbup: :clap:
:crazy:was told last night that i must post in here and confess.......my name is t-bags, and i'm a pedant.:giveup:
I'm probably worse for facts than spelling and stuff, but it's all good......or bad, depending on your perspective.:small-print:
Latina, thanks very much. We must get together someday and edit stuff. :bounce:
Goldenknicks, Latina making a mistake with our username is perhaps an example of a form of Muphry's law. That's right, Muphry's law: "If you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written." :small-print:
Boo.
'Its too busy here laughing..'
I could be wrong, but shouldn't that be It's, given the theme of the thread...
rank amateurs.
a true "pedant's pedant" like myself thinks nothing of engaging kilkenny county council in lengthy, tedious and ultimately fruitless correspondence regarding the discrepancy between how they operate their car-tax refund scheme in practice and how it ought to be operated according to their own literature.
delay to refund: 5 months
I thought this quote was relevant to this thread;
Bad spelling can be lethal. For example, the greedy Seriph of Al-Yabi was cursed by a badly-educated deity and for some days everything he touched turned to Glod, which happened to be the name of a small dwarf from a mountain community hundreds of miles away who found himself magically dragged to the kingdom and relentlessly duplicated. Some two thousand Glods later the spell wore off. These days, the people of Al-Yabi are renowned for being remarkably short and bad-tempered.
well Holy Glod as the Arabian version of Miley Byrne would say.( Glenroe reference for anyone under 25)
Bearing that in mind, I think I'm pretty good with not being all anal about others' writing! But you wouldn't receive a text from me which is not fully written out, spelling and punctuation as correct as possible. 
In my defence, writing is my job, and I'm sure anyone doing something relating to their job would be pedantic about it. Wouldn't they? Please tell me they would...
Boo.
(Now I will, as always, re-read the entry, add emoticons, change a word here, a letter there, consider if there's repetition I can avoid by using a synonym, finally post the entry, re-read it and possibly click 'edit' in a blind panic because I overlooked something.) 
