Can you control your inner pedant?

[Circe]

http://toys.usvsth3m.com/control-your-inner-pedant/

 

[Circe]

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.

 

[Dee*Jay]

I'm 63% under control and "fairly tolerant." I know (A LOT) people who would argue with that assessment...

 

[yssie]

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"

 

[sonnyjane]

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.

17% and shocked that it wasn't less

 

[April20]

31%. Says I get riled up easily. But I almost never hear the things they listed, so even though they make me crazy, I figure I'm not that high strung.

 

[VRBeauty]

"13% under control
You're a bearly contained ball of rage."

Shouldn't that be "barely!???"

And here I thought I was being sooooo tolerant!

ETA - heard just now on the radio (Sheriff's spokesperson speaking) "The suspect was found and he has deceased." AAAARG!

But no, I did not harm the radio.

 

[missy]

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.

 

[perry]

100% under control.

Of course, being somewhat dyslexic helps... and getting 49 out of 50... wrong... on my last spelling test in high school (where my teacher literately threw her arms up and screamed... "I give up") gives me tolerance.

Now lie to me - and its a different reaction.


The best people are those who build others up,

Perry

 

[yssie]

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

 

[yennyfire]

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?

 

[Smith1942]

My inner pedant is 45% under control. "You're a bit persnickety".

 

[Smith1942]

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]

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.

 

[Smith1942]

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.

 

[packrat]

38%-easily wound up.

 

[dk168]

"56% under control - You're a bit nitpicky."

No surprise there.

DK

 

[April20]

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?

Totally read it the same way.

 

[missy]

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

LOL no worries Yssie. For some reason I don't think it would bother me if you mixed those words up.
Meeting you IRL would be worth hearing any grammatical errors.

 

[OreoRosies86]

18% under control

 

[movie zombie]

me?
110% under control.
perhaps I am more mellow than I appear........don't tell anyone!

 

[AGBF]

I was surprised I was 46% under control and only, "a little persnickety" rather than joining those who were , "balls of rage"! I suspect I gained points in tolerance because I do not mind what people do when they text or abbreviate on a computer. I would not expect to see an author publish a book in print in which he wrote, "RU" or, "LOL" so I am not terribly bothered by seeing those things.

Deb/AGBF

 

[JewelFreak]

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.

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"!

Did you keep a straight face, Smith? Don't think I could have!

--- Laurie

 

[Rena7]

I am 29% strict as a school teacher. I also thought someone had misspelled pendant.

 

[isaku5]

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.

 

[ericad]

The results are in! Your inner pedant is
24% under control
You're strict like a schoolteacher.

 

[Smith1942]

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.

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"!

Did you keep a straight face, Smith? Don't think I could have!

--- Laurie

Oh, the whole office exploded. (It was a really small department.) Imagine eight people ROFLing!

 

[Smith1942]

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!!

 

[JewelFreak]

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.

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"!

Did you keep a straight face, Smith? Don't think I could have!

--- Laurie

Oh, the whole office exploded. (It was a really small department.) Imagine eight people ROFLing!

AHAHAHAHAHA! I can!

 

[isaku5]

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!!

Funny that you should mention s*x. That was another of my tasks - again to a boys only Grade 11 class.

The assignment was to choose a couple of paragraphs from an article in a recent Reader's Digest. The purpose of this exercise was to check on their oral reading skills. The fun- loving guys in the class chose a fellow who had no idea what he was saying, but the guys chose him and told me that he had chosen an excellent passage to read aloud. Sure.

It turned out to be a medical topic and the poor guy had no idea at all about what he was reading aloud. After the first sentence I knew that knowledge of his subject was absent, but I let him go to it and corrected his mis-pronunciations of words like vagina, penis, intercourse, orgasm etc. He stumbled on and the other kids were hoping I was going to stop him any minute. Not me. He proceeded until he had finished that part of the article.

I praised him for learning how to pronounce certain words and said nothing about the choice of article. To the dismay of the class, I told them that there was much to be learned from that reading and that if they wished, I had a dictionary so that all who were unsure of any of the words could be enlightened. In addition, I happened to mention that the library had a much clearer detailed explanation in their medical dictionary.

The students were totally deflated, but without further ado we moved on.

I chose teaching as a career because of the challenges. It was a perfect fit.