Post #1374818
2026-04-09 16:06 UTC
@benroyce @Wen reminds me of cartoon. (Which I can't find, so I'll describe it, alt text style)
It's a cartoon of a door to a room, and on the door a sign that reads 'Pedants society, meets here every Tuesday.'
Attached to that sign is another sign that someone else has added, that reads 'not here exactly, but behind this door.'
Then attached to that sign is yet another sign that reads 'not directly behind the door but within the room behind this door!'
Replies (3)
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@wibble@ohai.social 2026-04-09 16:54
@robchapman @benroyce @Wen I'm reminded that Private Eye's Pedantry Corner itself has a relatively recent title. Before that, it was called Pedant's Corner, Pedants' Corner or Pedants Corner and, as a result, became a neatly self-sustaining feature, if a somewhat dull one.
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@chertridge@beige.party 2026-04-11 13:31
@robchapman @benroyce @Wen Should it be pedants or pedants'?
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@benroyce@mastodon.social 2026-04-09 16:17
@robchapman @Wen all that, and they didn't even mention at what hour it would be 😂