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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Here we see the illusive pedant in its natural habitat

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is the internet, and I welcome such pedantry.

[–] my_hat_stinks -1 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ignoramus will be an ignoramus.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

ignore anus? man i try to