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Polls: Discuss One for the pedants in the Non-Diving Related Forums forums: So which of these really makes you evil ?...

View Poll Results: Which of these do you hate to see (when used incorrectly)?
Where, Were, Wear 7 10.00%
Your, You're 11 15.71%
Too, To, Two 7 10.00%
There, They're, Their 12 17.14%
Advise, Advice 3 4.29%
Council, Counsel 3 4.29%
Discreet, Discrete 2 2.86%
Affect, Effect 5 7.14%
Whose, Who's 5 7.14%
Compliment, Complement 2 2.86%
Principle, Principal 5 7.14%
Practise, Practice 2 2.86%
All the above! 27 38.57%
Other, please specify 6 8.57%
None, get a life you sad woman 26 37.14%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 70. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 23-08-04, 10:18 AM
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So which of these really makes you evil ?
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Old 23-08-04, 10:28 AM
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So, if I click all of the above, does that include the "other" and "none" options?

Sorry to be pedantic. Trust me, it's only for cheap commic effect
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Helen as a Chelters person you may have seen a advert on a building off the Witney by-pass. It reads (as best I can remember),
"Our buns are sweet and sticky, like Fanny's". As my grandmother was called Fanny I make no comment about her buns.....

It does as far as I can see justify all the pedantry you like about punctuation.

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reading that list has put my teeth on edge. I pity the next fool who crosses my path with an ill-advised sentence construction.

BUT, and this is a really important point ...

surely we have proved that pedantry has as much interest for the YD community as Deco theory? And they got their own forum! We demand a voice!
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reading that list has put my teeth on edge. I pity the next fool who crosses my path with an ill-advised sentence construction.

BUT, and this is a really important point ...

surely we have proved that pedantry has as much interest for the YD community as Deco theory? And they got their own forum! We demand a voice!

Leave it with me...
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I voted "other"

I really hate when people use "appraise" instead of "apprise" when they want to inform me of soemthing. Grrrrr. I think at work, I get told at least once a day "I want to appraise you of xxxxxxxx".

No, you dont you numpty; but if I was doing your appraisal, I would apprise you of the fact that you got a D (as in D for dunce).

There, that feels better.... calm... calm...

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So, if I click all of the above, does that include the "other" and "none" options?

Sorry to be pedantic. Trust me, it's only for cheap commic effect
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No - because they aren't 'above'!

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P.S. Comic - one 'm'
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Old 23-08-04, 11:20 AM
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Talking Damn editable polls, and damn my speeling!
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P.S. Comic - one 'm'
Really? Perhaps my dictionary isn't wrong, afterall...

Edit: I'm doubting myself now. Did you change the poll, or am I going mad. I suspect the latter. Arrrgh! Hovering helicopters of doubt!

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Really? Perhaps my dictionary isn't wrong, afterall...

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Come on Dan! You know damned well it's spelt 'Dikshunnery'!
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Come on Dan! You know damned well it's spelt 'Dikshunnery'!
I'm sure that's a medical condition, although not one that's common amongst the ladies of 'emel.
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