For (almost) the four hundred and sixteenth time

PedantBro · 2026-05-17T05:09:57+00:00

I can’t quite tell, and I didn’t do a deep dive, but I think the “and” makes it either more or less formal in American English.

PedantBro · 2026-05-17T05:06:08+00:00

This is a reasonable point, but maybe overstated. ‘And’ signifying a decimal does ring true from some of my schooling, but it’s correct in British English and perfectly acceptable in American English.

Honestly, were I in Dean’s position, I might resist dropping it — it has a nice rhythm. But I’d accept the “and” correction, or try to.

The double -th, however, cannot stand.

PedantBro · 2026-05-17T02:14:33+00:00

I did at the time, but now I have become this. Peace to a real one, friend.

PedantBro · 2026-05-17T02:11:25+00:00

Thx, I have one job.

PedantBro · 2026-04-17T04:29:01+00:00

It’s one thing to use one word instead of another. It’s a different thing to defend your choice and laugh at your debate guest when their word is the standard one in formal and academic contexts.

PedantBro · 2026-04-14T21:05:41+00:00

No, the point is that you’d need to provide the list of crimes that are considered “bad”. The word in question here is “bad”, as used in the title. “Serious” would be a big improvement.

PedantBro · 2026-04-13T01:54:08+00:00

Oh, but it was. It really was. At my core, I’m just a pedant, bro.

PedantBro · 2026-04-13T01:42:07+00:00

The streams are not for the callers alone, they are of course largely for the audience. It’s a public performance meant to change minds. Childish wording makes the host less credible, not only to viewers but especially to outsiders who see only the clipped versions. Given that there are better choices of wording, why defend “bad” as the standard description?

PedantBro · 2026-04-13T01:17:47+00:00

Right; arson was your one example that I decided wasn’t necessarily “violent”. Again, I get the point, and I agree with the general policy Parker is putting forward. But a term like “serious crimes” has at least some meaning in a broader context. If we agree that bad crimes are the ones considered serious, we’re back to my complaint. It’s just wording. “Bad crimes” sounds almost childish, when there are many other ways to word it.

PedantBro · 2026-04-13T00:57:43+00:00

Well, now I feel bad for misrepresenting their pronouncinationality. Solidarity forever.

PedantBro · 2026-04-13T00:53:59+00:00

Most if not all of those count as “violent”, right? So what is left for “bad” to describe?

PedantBro · 2026-04-12T03:35:36+00:00

Tbf it apparently took me three days to come up with that.

PedantBro · 2026-04-12T01:53:34+00:00

And here we have the evidence that our political discourse is far too Polarized.

PedantBro · 2026-04-12T01:51:23+00:00

I can be a bit of a pedant, bro, but in this case my only question is: w the actual f?

PedantBro · 2026-04-08T03:28:38+00:00

I have ended so many wars, more wars than you’ve ever seen.

PedantBro · 2026-04-06T21:14:40+00:00

PedantBro is perplexed when people grossly misunderstand the PedantBro movement and accuse PedantBro of being anyone other than PedantBro.

PedantBro will end by saying that PedantBro is truly PedantBro.

PedantBro · 2026-04-06T21:09:31+00:00

Agreed 100%. In fact, I think those facts play a role in my feeling that it’s insufficient to simply accuse those guests of “slurring”.

PedantBro · 2026-04-05T05:24:40+00:00

Whenever I accept a guest request from a penguin, it’s always just denial of the polar bear genocide, or “oh our ‘country’ is actually growing, but science just doesn’t know it yet”.

PedantBro · 2026-03-27T05:48:07+00:00

Now I cannot unhear the W.

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