Recent pedantry you have:
- experienced
- or for which you have been responsible.
Recent pedantry you have:
When people prefix something with the words âI donât like to be a pedant butâŚâ, it means theyâre relishing being a pedant in whatever theyâre about to say.
An amendment made by a British lawyer to a British law document written in British English. Why???
Could be installing lots of gas meters?
You may have cracked it thereâŚ
I think I will respond by making âmetersâ a defined term, and defining it as âmetresâ. This is how lawyers get their lols.
Iâm assessing a funding application with a colleague who wants to send feeback to them asking for loads of information we donât need, wonât look at will just sit in their application form on our server for no reason long after theyâve spent the money. This is of no interest to any of you
I have found in the past few years that this applies to many things I have been asked to do. I have become wise to the fact and have saved myself a lot of time ignoring certain requests as I know that no one will read what I produce.
I say this ironically; I relish being a pedant
Got a CV through this week from someone talking up her âpolite, professional manorâ. Weâre not actually allowed to bin people off because of CV typos because thereâs a chance it was the recruiters but it irked me good and proper.
Maybe sheâs from a really pleasant suburb where friendly doctors, accountants and solicitors live
I did try to give her the benefit of the doubt, but I think it said she approached problems in her manor which reminded me of that bit in Brass Eye where the pedophile dressed as a school.
I have binned a CV which contained the phrase âgood attention to detal.â
Pointed out that I wanted the font size on the âyâ axis on a set of graphs had to be size 8 instead of size 10.
CV pedantry is the worst. âOh youâre applying for a job how could you possibly make a typo?â Get over it grandad no-one needs to spell anything any more and no-one else cares if they can.
Some twat at work has insisted that we now include the job number and reason for visit next to every location on the petrol expenses form. This makes filling one out a massive pain in the arse and is completely pointless.
If there was ever a need to find out the job number then it would be much quicker just to look up that one at the time its needed. Rather than make EVERYONE waste that time EVERYTIME they fill in a form.
I went for my usual approach when this sort of thing happens - ignore it. But Kat in accounts just returned the form unpaid!
One bloke put 10 digits in his referenceâs phone number.
(I put 10 digits in your mum etc.)
Classic Kat
I just think youâre a self harming idiot if youâre ruling out possibly good or even brilliant candidates based on minor errors.
Edit: no slur on actual self harm intended
My brother kept correcting me for referring to something as âa kickstarterâ even though it was on the indiegogo platform