Pedants' Paradise

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

But that's not like Lee!

What's not to likely?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The ultimate reliable authority here must surely be Michael Finnissy (pace Lylyly li)?...

Whose works should be played Finnissily.

(But I'm only suggesting this sillily.)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Interesting - but if you compare:'[I] like Lily', and 'likelily' there are variations in pronunciation, mainly because Lily carries a certain amount of stress on the first syllable whereas in likelily as an adverb the word stress is on the first syllable only - a dactyl. Plus the preponderance of ls/l's is offputting. Something must be done. Solution = likely

Indeed - my suggestion wasn't in earnest, just meant as an embellishment frillily contributed on a very hot day.


(The heat of which appears to have got to me.)

[Nick Armstrong]

Indeed - my suggestion wasn't in earnest, just meant as an embellishment frillily contributed on a very hot day.


(The heat of which appears to have got to me.)

[french frank]

Indeed - my suggestion wasn't in earnest

Now he tells me! God, yes, the heat, the heat! :cool1:

[ahinton]

Now he tells me! God, yes, the heat, the heat! :cool1:

Oh, it's not THAT hot! - it probably feels hotter than it is because we've had so much cold and cool weather until recently. Hereford managed to knock up 30.3° today and certain of the surrounding areas (such as where I am) were a tad higher; I don't know what it was like in Brizzle, though...

[french frank]

I don't know what it was like in Brizzle, though...

The same according to the Met Office 30.3º at 3pm

[Keraulophone]

https://i.imgur.com/PK4YFQY_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=high

[french frank]

https://i.imgur.com/PK4YFQY_d.jpg?ma...&fidelity=high

And don't forget the commas.

[Keraulophone]

How about some lower case and a full stop?

[vinteuil]

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... and surely 'Perhaps you meant: "He, too, is an insufferable pedant."' - should have appropriate quotation marks.

[french frank]

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... and surely 'Perhaps you meant: "He, too, is an insufferable pedant."' - should have appropriate quotation marks.

And, arguably, a question mark at the end.

[Keraulophone]

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... and surely 'Perhaps you meant: "He, too, is an insufferable pedant."' - should have appropriate quotation marks.

Quite; and a space separating " from '.

[vinteuil]

Quite; and a space separating " from '.

... indeed so : and we can further discuss whether the full stop necessary after the sentence ending 'pedant' needs to be supplemented by a further stop outside those quotation marks to conclude the sentence beginning with 'Perhaps... '.

We also need to determine whether there shd be a space between meant and the following colon, as continental usage normally requires, or whether we shd follow standard (but not without exceptions) English practice of leaving no space between a word and its succeeding colon : I see that keraulophon in #3493 adopts current standard English usage...

[Keraulophone]

I see that keraulophon in #3493 adopts current standard English usage...

He may have done on the BBC MB, but on here Keraulophone aims to comply with standard usage while this side of the English Channel. Cartoonists, on the other hand, now use simpler forms; though early editions of Punch show that, before the use of speech bubbles, they were bound by grammatical and syntactic convention.

So we have: 'Perhaps you meant: "He, too, is an insufferable pedant".'

Or, for ff: 'Perhaps you meant: "He, too, is an insufferable pedant"?'