Pedantic Speech Fan Club

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Thank yew! Thank yew!

..I need some sort of bowing/curtsy emoticon here...



So sayeth wiki:



But, the negative side:



For us in this thread though:



And HFA and Asperger's are mentioned in the following lines of wiki's definition:

Wow, "apothegmaticall"... that's quite a word there.

I'm not sure whether I'm a member here, because I can be a bad judge in qualitative stuff, but I have found myself writing more that way on this forum than when I speak IRL.

I went through a phase of 'trying to master street speech' when I was a lot younger, so I believe I can be versatile, so my sympathy there Brittany2907. I used to start a conversation with a peer in 'vouvoyer (Fr. Here I mean the equivalent in my language)' when I was young, because I understood it to be the rule and was puzzled why others didn't seem to do this. And WinterRose I share the spelling problem with you haha. Also English is a foreign language to me so I will be easily beaten by literature-minded WP members in the multi-syllablic department.

I was thinking in my case it's more of trying to express the idea as accurately as possible, just like you would in a maths problem, when I read this.

[typo: esoteric]
nutbag, I like your 'may' in l.1. That's a beauty.
I'm very happy many others here agree on this.

So I see in the core of this lies an effort of being logical. I enjoy using English maybe because it lets me, probably more effortfully, manupilate form, syntax and concepts, which gives me a sense of order.

Being logical, in my opinion, can be achieved without using words as defined in dictionary*, which I see as an illogical use of language, admitting that I was a bit of a stickler to dictionary definitions myself as a child; modern linguists are able to show you that insisting on prescriptive use goes against the very nature of natural language. Of course you can nicely stick to the algorithm in artificial language. Plz note though, the above does not imply that no pedants can be prescriptive in their use of language, I'm just saying it seems illogical to me.

*Though this arguement tends to be futile if you don't define what kind of dictionary you want to talk about, because there're now those based on language corpus, which means these dictionaries are 'descriptive' rather than 'prescriptive'.

Has anyone here seen a comedy clip (British, recent few years) where some white coats throw themselves in an uncontrollable fit of laughter over a tongue trip of a tech term? Something to the effect of 'Did you actually say esotwric instead of esoteric?'

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WHITEDRAGON

You obviously possess a pedants license, grade one.

Oh, and I am horrifically clumsy. I mistypw all the time.

I wouldn't say I love being pedantic, more that I really like it to a considerable degree.

Sophist,

Thanks, that's what I thought. I can see how I am pedantic; strangely enough, I never saw it with a negative connotation, just someone who prefers accuracy and facts.

Whee, I got grade one, haha. With a hindsight I can see it.

I never take it as an insult anymore.

I just say, "Thank you!"

I'm seriously gonna have to start using "apothegmatical" though...

I may have to include "apothemagiticale" too, so long as this lysdexis aspie does not have to spell it!

WOW, that took me a second! And I was talking to someone about dyslexia just this morning!

When you're autistic, there's always another good laugh on the way.

I was not a member of the beneficent world of WP when this thread was instituted. I still fervently hope, however, to importune you all for membership into the Pedantic Speech Fan Club. I list as my qualifications the following:

*Awarded a Best Friend Outburst of Anger at age 11 for using words too advanced for my best friend to understand
*Throughout the years of my life i have had the ability to correct nearly every teacher and author i have encountered concerning matters of vocabulary and writing
*Awarded Spousal Infuriation multiple times over the years for demanding precision in all incoming and outgoing communication
*Awarded Offspring Infuriation multiple times over the years for demanding precision in all incoming and outgoing communication

I do hereby, and with these incompressible credentials, do substantiate my claim to membership.

I love it. It's mellifluous to my ears.

ahh. correcting teachers, I love that part

Hi everyone,

I'm new to this website, and the reason I'm posting in this particular thread is because I googled 'pedantic speech', and this location was at the top of the generated list of websites. What led me to google 'pedantic speech' was born of of a conversation earlier this evening. I was at a social dinner where I noticed once again that while I'm conversing with others, I'm overly concerned with precision and clarity in speech. Being a medical student at a highly regarded institution, I find myself surrounded by other highly functioning individuals. Therefore, I've had this notion that others speak like I do. But tonight at dinner, I realized that my most natural state of speaking is very different from that of my colleagues. When I speak, I have a monotone voice and it sounds as if I'm reading from an academic medical journal. Also, I'm overly concerned with clarity when I listen to others, and often find myself frustrated if others aren't being clear (and mind you, these are highly talented individuals). In addition, I find myself using awkward language in response to others-I can't exactly describe what I mean by this, but it's just this tendency to use words that others wouldn't normally use in casual conversation. I hope I've impressed upon you this notion of mine. However, this notion and its association with Autism and Asperger's didn't make it to the fore of my thought until someone in my car on the way home mentioned a movie they'd seen about a little girl with Asperger's who's socially awkward, yet still functions at a high level. After a cursory look through Wikipedia's entry on Asperger's and its mention of pendantry, over-formalized speech, and a monotonicity in speech, I find myself here. Is it possible that I have some shade of Autism Spectrum Disorder? Thanks for your thoughts.