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Circe|1386961947|3573752 said:I get:
The results are in! Your inner pedant is
10% under control
You're a bearly contained ball of rage.
I think they're giving me too much credit.
Yssie|1386965657|3573784 said:The results are in! Your inner pedant is
25% under control
You're strict like a schoolteacher.
I'll tolerate muddled idioms (they're usually pretty funny) but stuff like text-speak, obnoxious spelling, and grammatical oblivion drives me nuts.
Exhibit A: just a couple of days ago someone told me "you're supposed to pick up the slack when I drop the ball"
missy|1386968959|3573828 said:Yssie|1386965657|3573784 said:The results are in! Your inner pedant is
25% under control
You're strict like a schoolteacher.
I'll tolerate muddled idioms (they're usually pretty funny) but stuff like text-speak, obnoxious spelling, and grammatical oblivion drives me nuts.
Exhibit A: just a couple of days ago someone told me "you're supposed to pick up the slack when I drop the ball"
My score is 20% and I am also strict like a schoolteacher. I agree with Yssie. I also cannot tolerate text speak and obvious grammatical errors. I am far from perfect re grammar but I try. I also mix up idioms/sayings so often that my dh asks me if English is my first language hahaha. One of my biggest pet peeves is when people use "I" and "me" incorrectly. That really annoys me.
Smith1942|1386973390|3573875 said:One of my colleagues kept a list of daft things people had said in the office. The best one was, "We're all just prawns in the game of life"!
Circe|1386973583|3573876 said:Smith1942|1386973390|3573875 said:One of my colleagues kept a list of daft things people had said in the office. The best one was, "We're all just prawns in the game of life"!
In the game of prawns, you win or you fry.
yennyfire|1386972578|3573868 said:OK, before I head off to see how I fare, I have to tell you that as I was scanning the posts in Hangout while enjoying a much needed glass of wine, I saw the title and though it said "Can you control your inner pendant?".....um, do you think I spend too much time on a jewelry forum?
Yssie|1386971199|3573850 said:missy|1386968959|3573828 said:Yssie|1386965657|3573784 said:The results are in! Your inner pedant is
25% under control
You're strict like a schoolteacher.
I'll tolerate muddled idioms (they're usually pretty funny) but stuff like text-speak, obnoxious spelling, and grammatical oblivion drives me nuts.
Exhibit A: just a couple of days ago someone told me "you're supposed to pick up the slack when I drop the ball"
My score is 20% and I am also strict like a schoolteacher. I agree with Yssie. I also cannot tolerate text speak and obvious grammatical errors. I am far from perfect re grammar but I try. I also mix up idioms/sayings so often that my dh asks me if English is my first language hahaha. One of my biggest pet peeves is when people use "I" and "me" incorrectly. That really annoys me.
I'd better brush up before meeting you in-person one day! That's one of the ones I get lazy about.
My pet peeve is lay/lie (and laid/lain). Thou shalt not go lay down, darn it!
iDeviceSpeak... It does indeed render one all thumbs...
The saying "it is what it is". I'd managed to figure that much out for myself, oddly enough, but thank you for the re-appraisal..?
"I ought to". "I ought not". Not "I ought not to". If you're going to try to be stuffy for goodness sake at least get the stuffiness right!
Hmm... okay, maybe I'm more uptight than I thought
Did you keep a straight face, Smith? Don't think I could have!Smith1942 said:One of my colleagues kept a list of daft things people had said in the office. The best one was, "We're all just prawns in the game of life"!
JewelFreak|1387031267|3574114 said:21% -- I'm a strict prissy schoolteacher and proud of it! And BEARLY under control??? Need to put red marker all over the face of the writer of the test! Write BARELY 50 times after school.
Did you keep a straight face, Smith? Don't think I could have!Smith1942 said:One of my colleagues kept a list of daft things people had said in the office. The best one was, "We're all just prawns in the game of life"!
--- Laurie
isaku5|1387038936|3574152 said:3% tolerant! There was one statement I wavered on, and if I had answered 'I can't tolerate that!' I probably would have had perfect zero
I would challenge anyone to explain the differences between the lie/lay verbs to a class of 25 fourteen year old testosterone - charged guys. I couldn't keep a straight face either.
Smith1942|1387048064|3574241 said:JewelFreak|1387031267|3574114 said:21% -- I'm a strict prissy schoolteacher and proud of it! And BEARLY under control??? Need to put red marker all over the face of the writer of the test! Write BARELY 50 times after school.
Did you keep a straight face, Smith? Don't think I could have!Smith1942 said:One of my colleagues kept a list of daft things people had said in the office. The best one was, "We're all just prawns in the game of life"!
--- Laurie
Oh, the whole office exploded. (It was a really small department.) Imagine eight people ROFLing!
Smith1942|1387048143|3574243 said:isaku5|1387038936|3574152 said:3% tolerant! There was one statement I wavered on, and if I had answered 'I can't tolerate that!' I probably would have had perfect zero
I would challenge anyone to explain the differences between the lie/lay verbs to a class of 25 fourteen year old testosterone - charged guys. I couldn't keep a straight face either.
Yeah, it's situations like that which put me off the idea of teaching! Only one thing worse than what you described above.....teaching them s*x ed!!