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Alex von Tunzelmann@alexvont.bsky.social |
I’m pedantic by nature, but social media has pretty much cured me. It’s just so irritating watching people smugly nitpick stuff like this when the meaning is perfectly clear.
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Professor Peter Matthews
@urbaneprofessor.bsky.social
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Oh yes. My years on twitter well and truly cured me of being "that guy". Just let it pass...
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Schafe
@schafe.bsky.social
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I sometimes catch myself doing a lot of this and I think it is often my neurodiverse brain when tired or stress just reacts before I catch up and go "no, there is context people are hardly ever literal and we know this stop saying stuff"
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Victoria Redfern
@victoriaredfern.bsky.social
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I REALLY hate 'carnage' for chaos, though. It's so redolent of chunks of flesh, and in certain contexts can make you think there's been hideous death when there hasn't been, eg a road accident just causing tailbacks.
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William Li
@williamlidc.bsky.social
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Kinda want a sign that says “Pedantic By Nature”
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Dylan Keeling
@mrdylankeeling.bsky.social
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There was an utterly horrendous Facebook trend in about 2014 called Spellcheck A Racist where smug people would write grammar analysis (some, ironically, wrong!) whenever some racist made a typo. It fought zero racism, and also cured me of my pedantry
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Tim Kimber
@timkimber.bsky.social
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Someone did this to me irl yesterday – with the most pretentious "Oh quite the opposite! In fact I'd say it's very 'on-brand'!" after I made a point about how the Tory betting scandal was quintessential Tory I foolishly finished it with "Unbelievable", and they just went for it like a vulture
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Tony Corsentino
@notalegalrecord.net
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RIP dry irony as well
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