On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Scott MacDonald wrote: >> On 04 October 2011 at 21:08, Ray Saintonge wrote: >>> On 10/04/11 3:51 AM, Tom Morris wrote: >>> > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:04, Scott MacDonald wrote: >>> > >>> >> Unfortunately, I think this is what happens when kewl teenagers who like >>> >> memes started (apparently) by star-trek, meet adults who value actual >>> >> communication in the language of Shakespeare. >>> > >>> > Oh, please. I'd call you a flap-mouthed miscreant, but instead I shall >>> > risk accusations of incivility and just facepalm quietly to myself. >>> >>> Pedantry is no more communicative than the memes of pop culture. >> >> To be pedantic, I think you mean verbosity. > > What part of "Ten foot pole, not touching." don't you understand. > Would that work better?
Did you all manage to miss the point that Tom wasn't being pedantic or verbose? He was being Shakespearean (responding to what Scott said about the language of Shakespeare), doing so with the words 'flap-mouthed' and 'miscreant'. Unless that is considered a form of pedantry? See here for some examples: http://www.squidoo.com/shakespearean-insults I feel an "you are all idiots" moment coming on (that's an in-joke). Or rather, you are all pribbling plume-plucked puttocks. No, I don't know what that means either, but (to use Scott's phrase) it sounds 'kewl'. I wonder if Shakespearean insults would work better than trout and facepalm templates. Probably not. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
