It’s not pedantry to point out your word choice was so completely wrong. Illusive is descriptive of things that are illusions (a mirage is illusive water); elusive is descriptive of something that is hard to find
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev
on 12 Dec 08:14
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“Correcting” someone in a casual setting when they clearly communicated their ideas in a way that was understood by the majority of the audience without issue is pedantry, or more specifically linguistic prescriptivism. If their meaning was unclear you’d ask what they meant to say, when you tell someone what they meant to say you obviously understood them and are just being pedantic.
This is the internet, and I welcome such pedantry.
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev
on 13 Dec 14:15
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Okay? If you want to “correct” people who didn’t ask you go ahead, but all you’re really doing is pointlessly derailing conversations. And if you cry about it when people call you out for being a dick that’s more than a little pathetic.
maccentric@sh.itjust.works
on 12 Dec 11:33
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*elusive
teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 11 Dec 22:02
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I once saw a pigeon swallow a giant fish that was being fed to a seal, and after eating it it literally couldn’t fly anymore
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Here we see the illusive billionaire in its natural habitat
Elusive*, you’ll probably try to correct me and say that you meant “illusive” but that’s not the right use-case for it anyway.
Here we see the illusive pedant in its natural habitat
Ignoramus will be an ignoramus.
ignore anus? man i try to
It’s not pedantry to point out your word choice was so completely wrong. Illusive is descriptive of things that are illusions (a mirage is illusive water); elusive is descriptive of something that is hard to find
“Correcting” someone in a casual setting when they clearly communicated their ideas in a way that was understood by the majority of the audience without issue is pedantry, or more specifically linguistic prescriptivism. If their meaning was unclear you’d ask what they meant to say, when you tell someone what they meant to say you obviously understood them and are just being pedantic.
This is the internet, and I welcome such pedantry.
Okay? If you want to “correct” people who didn’t ask you go ahead, but all you’re really doing is pointlessly derailing conversations. And if you cry about it when people call you out for being a dick that’s more than a little pathetic.
*elusive
I once saw a pigeon swallow a giant fish that was being fed to a seal, and after eating it it literally couldn’t fly anymore
Nature’s equivalent to plopping down on the couch and unbuttoning the top button of your pants.
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Seals can’t fly to begin with.
What about crop milk?
Being a bird for a day would be a fuckin trip
Can I haz bird pill?
I read here that you just need to selectively activate your genes.
that’s just to get the feathers…
which isn’t as far fetched as it seems, seeing as how we already get goosebumps
I once watched a shag swallow a huge eel. The eel didn’t want to be swallowed. It took about 15 minutes.
That must have been gripping to watch
a what now
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I mean, birds being birds, they may actually share this with several members of their family still…
He’s just salty that his break’s so tiny
Food shaming
Who actually finds this funny and why?
People who aren’t dead inside, for aforementioned reasons
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fuckin cormorants.