Are you actually giving someone a hard time for being pedantic in response to a pedant? And your pedantry is being used to mock the 2nd pedant? Careful ... we may turn the internet into a black hole.Quote:
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Are you actually giving someone a hard time for being pedantic in response to a pedant? And your pedantry is being used to mock the 2nd pedant? Careful ... we may turn the internet into a black hole.Quote:
Originally Posted by dbroncsinmo
Lol. So many pendants. Where do we start? Crovash is definitely the pendantic king of PSD.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scoots
Actually, I am giving a hard time to someone that has proudly stated that they are willingly living off of the government's tit while sitting there complaining about politics.
I don’t think I used the title anyway. Thanks for correcting him though. If I do, I’ll knowQuote:
Originally Posted by Crovash
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lol, what??Quote:
Originally Posted by Crovash
We're missing the most important thing here. You can also put book titles in all caps.
You guys are full of free advice!
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Actually, it’s called common knowledge.Quote:
Originally Posted by dbroncsinmo
Thank you. Happy to be King of the Pedant Hill.Quote:
Originally Posted by dbroncsinmo
And, since we are talking of advice, my grandfather once said to me, “Whatever you do, don’t be mediocre.”
Happy to live of of the government tit? Absolutely.Quote:
Originally Posted by dbroncsinmo
Complaining? Well, occasionally, I suppose, but in general, I think I have commended as much as I have complained.
Wow! This Google thing is great! You can like look up anything
When did that start! Who came up with that!
Amazing what you can find in like 5 minutes.
https://www.writersdigest.com/online...ne-book-titles
Do You Underline Book Titles?
By: Brian A. Klems | May 29, 2012
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How do I handle book titles in my work? Do I underline them? Italicize them? Put them in quotes? —Bryan F.
This is one of those pesky questions that comes up all the time: Should I underline or italicize book titles in my writing? And it comes up for good reason: You can look at several different books, newspapers or magazine articles and see it handled several different ways. So which one is right?
The answer is: Probably all of them.
How you handle book titles in your work is a style choice not governed by grammarian law. The issue is addressed by the top stylebooks, but the answers vary.
According to the Chicago Manual of Style and the Modern Language Association, titles of books (and other complete works, such as newspapers and magazines), should be italicized. So if abiding by either of those guides, you’d italicize Stephen King’s The Shining, just as you would Vanity Fair and The Miami Herald (and Appetite for Destruction, if your protagonist is a Guns N’ Roses fan).
On the flip side, the AP Stylebook suggests that you use quotation marks around the names of books (with the exceptions of the Bible and catalogs of reference material, such as dictionaries and almanacs, which should not be styled in any way). So if you’re writing for a publication that adheres to AP guidelines, reference books with friendly quotation marks: “Eat, Pray, Love,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows” and “Bossypants” (have I ever mentioned how much I love Tina Fey?).
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I'm a gonna go google "pedantic." It must mean like walking around being playful or sumptin like that. But I'll check.
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And all that without casting an insult.
Happy to admit that I stand corrected.
From grammarly.com
"Italics and underlining are used today to emphasize titles of works such as books, poems, short stories, and articles.
In general, titles of long, full-length works should be italicized, although some style guides recommend putting them in quotation marks. Full-length works are things like novels, plays, movies, epic poems, and textbooks. Shorter works (poems, articles, short stories, chapter titles) are typically put in quotation marks.
Book titles are usually put in the same category as other big, standalone, or complete bodies of work like newspapers, symphonies, or publications. Style guides that prescribe the use of italics, such as The Chicago Manual of Style or the AMA Manual of Style, say that titles of such works should be put into italics when appearing in text. Some writers still use underlining if italicizing is not an option, but generally it’s considered to be an outdated style."
I'll save you the trouble:
pedant noun
ped·ant | \ ˈpe-dᵊnt \
Definition of pedant
1 obsolete : a male schoolteacher
2a : one who makes a show of knowledge
2b : one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge
2c : a formalist or precisionist in teaching
3 : a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning."
That is I.
Very uninteresting
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This whole silly thing came up in grad school years ago and for some reason I seem to remember it.
Don't know why. Don't even remember if it involved me, just that the class had a lengthy discussion over it. That was followed up by the ever crucial topic of using commas.
World hunger be damned…let's all get on board about these commas.
I'm waiting valade16.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpecialFNK
you're doing exactly what I have expected, no interest on commenting on these things that show how stupid she is.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/o...-ocasio-cortez
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Conservatives are 'obsessed' with Ocasio-Cortez, says media that’s obsessed with Ocasio-Cortez
the Liberal (Democrat) media loves Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez because she is a new shiny toy which checks the boxes they desperately want.Quote:
Conservatives are “obsessed” with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. At least, that’s what the press tells me.
Slate asks, “Why the Right Is So Obsessed With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez[?]"
The Huffington Post declares in an eye-roller of a headline, “Conservative Men Are Obsessed With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Science Tells Us Why."
“Conservatives can’t stop obsessing over Ocasio-Cortez. Their latest target: her boyfriend,” the Washington Post reported on Feb. 15.
They’re not wrong to say the Right is maybe a little too fixated on the 29-year-old freshman congresswoman. But let that criticism come from anywhere else but the news media that has done so much to pump her up.
Yes, reporters and pundits are every bit as obsessed with the New York congresswoman. The only difference is that their obsession is loving — more Beatlemania than angry ex-boyfriend. I mean, you want to talk about people being captivated by Ocasio-Cortez? Let’s look at just a handful of headlines published in the last month.
On Feb. 6, after President Trump delivered his annual State of the Union address, Insider actually ran a headline that read, “People are obsessed with the white cape Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wore to the State of the Union. Here’s where you can get a look-alike version.”
“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is inspiration behind upcoming comic book,” read a Feb. 27 headline published by ABC News, which also dedicated actual airtime to covering the book.
NBC News went with this on Feb. 26: “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is 'taking on the GOP' in new comic book.” The story’s subhead read, “Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear white pantsuits.”
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will become a superhero in a new comic book,” reported CNN.
We got this same comic book PR pitch, by the way. It found my editor's circular file.
The Hill published a story on Feb. 21 titled, “Video of Ocasio-Cortez being lovingly attacked by a dog goes viral after #NationalLoveYourPetDay.”
On Feb. 27, Rolling Stone magazine revealed Ocasio-Cortez would be featured in an upcoming cover story titled “Women shaping the future: Nancy Pelosi and the new voices of the House,” along with other Democratic congresswomen, including anti-Semite Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. The definitely not-obsessed news media followed up by offering fluffy, pro-Ocasio-Cortez coverage of Rolling Stone’s fluffy, pro-Ocasio-Cortez cover story.
“Rolling Stone Features Democratic ‘Women Shaping The Future’ As Cover Stars,” read one Huffington Post headline.
Boing Boing went with this particularly servile tribute: “AOC's Rolling Stone interview: portrait of a principled, shrewd, brilliant activist/politician.”
And then there’s my personal favorite, which comes from Reuters’ devastatingly titled “ Top News” Twitter account:
These are not “news” stories by any stretch of the imagination. Not one of them. These are love letters written by starstruck fans who happen to work for publications. The media are eager to update the faithful on the latest, greatest “slay queen” moments from the slayest of queens, and there’s no end in sight to these types of stories. They're going to keep pumping these things out, one after the other.
There’s no real difference in the amount of attention Ocasio-Cortez gets from the nation’s leading newsrooms and the amount of attention she gets from right-leaning media. The only difference is the tone. Conservatives are critical of the congresswoman, while the average newsrooms might as well be lining up for her autograph.
Yet it’s the conservatives who are accused of being obsessed. Ironically enough, that accusation comes from the only corner of the world that can be described as being more infatuated with Ocasio-Cortez than the Right is.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4...n-control-vote
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Ocasio-Cortez rebukes Dem centrists over gun control vote
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's ignorance against ICE continues. it is stupid to be against informing ICE when an illegal immigrant buys a gun, the people that are already in the country illegally.Quote:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) upbraided centrist House Democrats on Saturday after a vote on gun control earlier this week split the party.
Ocasio-Cortez went after the "splinter group of Dems" on Twitter after the vote this week exposed divisions within the Democratic caucus on an amendment to a universal background check bill.
More than two dozen moderate Democrats helped Republicans in the minority tack on a motion to recommit (MTR) to the background check bill that would to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if a person in the country illegally tries to buy a gun.
“Mind you, the same small splinter group of Dems that tried to deny Pelosi the speakership, fund the wall during the shutdown when the public didn’t want it, & are now voting in surprise ICE amendments to gun safety legislation are being called the ‘moderate wing’ of the party,” Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive firebrand and staunch ICE critic, tweeted Saturday.
Reports surfaced that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Ocasio-Cortez teamed up to push back on the defectors.
“Vote 'no.' Just vote 'no,' because the fact is a vote 'yes' is to give leverage to the other side, to surrender the leverage on the floor of the House,” Pelosi told reporters of the message she relayed to Democrats.
Meanwhile, Ocasio-Cortez has denied reports that she threatened to add centrist Democrats who bucked the party to a list to potentially be primaried, saying she was upset with the members of her caucus who took a position in support of ICE.
“Again, didn’t threaten a primary. I was upset that 26 Dems forced the other 200+ to vote for a pro-ICE provision at the last min without warning,” she tweeted Saturday.
“If you’re mad that I think people SHOULD KNOW when Dems vote to expand ICE powers, then be mad. ICE is a dangerous agency with 0 accountability, widespread reporting of rape, abuse of power, + children dying in DHS custody. Having a D next to your name doesn’t make that right.”
Ocasio-Cortez was responding in part to an article from The Washington Post that detailed criticism of the New York representative from centrist House Democrats who felt endangered by the alleged primary threat.
“Being unified means ensuring that Democrats aren’t primary-ing other sitting Democrats,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), a co-chairman of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, told The Post. “Since when is it okay to put you on a Nixonian list? We need to have a big tent in our party or we won’t keep the House or win the White House.”
she has a problem with Decorators that don't vote how she wants, but she has no problem voting the other way herself.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4...er-ice-funding
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was the lone Democrat to vote against a short-term bill to reopen the federal government
It all shows my age.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sluggo1
Back in the day, we used to handwrite our exams (christ, back in the day we actually used to take exams!) and using italics made no sense, so my professors insisted on underlining long works and putting quotation marks areound short works.
But it seems the world has moved on.
As ewing noted: “very uninteresting.”
Except to this pedant. I learned something that is probably more useful than knowing our various opinions on how Cohen’s hearing went.
No, I don’t believe in trickle down economics. It’s been attempted on many occasions and time after time is shown to not work or be effective. The rich people do sit on their money and put it away in tax havens with basically nothing trickling down. It’s a joke that anyone buys into this because it’s just a money grab by the wealthy that creates an even larger gap between them and the poor. How much of those tax savings did you trickle down to your employees in the form of raises?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sluggo1
https://psmag.com/economics/trickle-...-indeed-a-joke
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/04/warr...economics.html
Personally wish Buffett was the billionaire who became president.
Do you really believe that gearing the country towards more environmentally sustainable policies would bring it to a standstill? I don’t, I think it’s the biggest potential for future jobs and technology there is. But standing still, resisting change, living in the past instead of pushing forward and being a leader and innovator is what will keep the west on top. The excuse that others aren’t doing it so why should we bother is a really poor one imo
I may not know another collapse like that will happen but if history tells us anything there is a really, really good chance financial institutions will drive us towards one and the deregulation will help them get there . Getting rid of some weak banks isn’t worth the cost of the 08’ collapse.
Healthcare costs basically are double of other developed nations and aren’t that great. You can blame Obama if you want but that problem has been around since long before him.
I’m ok with how he is handling China and to a lesser degree NK.