Tribe.net. Local Connections Mike http://ilop.tribe.net/thread/fb7f1cc6-c172-492f-ac49-9e763e7d5105 2005-12-17T18:33:02Z 2005-11-17T18:33:23Z

<div>Has anyone got any guidelines for using parentheses around a phrase that ends with a "smile" emoticon? My copy of Strunk &amp; White doesn't cover this.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://ilop.tribe.net">International League of Pedants</a> - 4 replies </div>

Mike 2005-11-17T18:33:23Z PoolB http://ilop.tribe.net/thread/dbe20a40-7e64-4669-8f91-7bea25a1fd1f 2005-03-11T13:19:10Z 2004-11-22T23:43:16Z

<div>http://bondage.com/topic_id/121217/p/1/forums/topic.html</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://ilop.tribe.net">International League of Pedants</a> - 4 replies </div>

PoolB 2004-11-22T23:43:16Z qatana http://ilop.tribe.net/thread/beb15acc-2454-4c3d-95e0-3ee03d352647 2004-10-15T04:16:59Z 2004-04-07T00:55:24Z

<div>Hey how come when people work at home they say they work From home? Doesn't "from" imply that they've left? <br/> <br/>I work At home. If i left the house to do my job then i'd be working from home.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://ilop.tribe.net">International League of Pedants</a> - 14 replies </div>

qatana 2004-04-07T00:55:24Z qatana http://ilop.tribe.net/thread/a540e9c6-6841-46f6-b97b-3a66bda91e38 2004-10-13T14:39:23Z 2004-03-24T06:24:46Z

<div>Transition. A passing or passagefrom one condition, action or (rarely)place, to another;change. <br/>That's what it meant in my 1955 Oxford Universal Dictionary(with my name in gilt on the spine!) <br/> <br/>When,oh when, did this word become a verb meaning "to move from one place to another"? <br/> <br/>i mean, you can transfer, transport, transmit,transmigrate, i don't feel like typing the rest of the page. Why must we "transition"??</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://ilop.tribe.net">International League of Pedants</a> - 11 replies </div>

qatana 2004-03-24T06:24:46Z Dunk http://ilop.tribe.net/thread/effe7c22-3061-474b-8431-f8bafb72e7dd 2004-08-26T17:22:48Z 2004-03-02T04:51:39Z

<div>I've been having an argument with my girlfriend for a while now. Is it OK to say that something is 'very unique.' She thinks that something is either unique or not unique. There is no 'very unique.' There are no degrees of uniqueness. <br/> <br/>Help settle our little dispute, and save our relationship from certain peril. What say the experts in this tribe?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://ilop.tribe.net">International League of Pedants</a> - 29 replies </div>

Dunk 2004-03-02T04:51:39Z harry http://ilop.tribe.net/thread/dfd90f2a-5e21-4d3a-adef-c520d13614e7 2004-07-21T01:10:00Z 2004-07-18T18:59:43Z

<div>i jogged past a long line of flags from various countries this morning and for some reason this occurred to me: <br/> <br/>costa rica - costa rican <br/>granada - granadan <br/>samoa - samoan <br/> <br/>the rule seems to be that you just add an 'n'. <br/> <br/>so why don't we have canadans living up north?! <br/> <br/>;-) <br/> <br/>harry</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://ilop.tribe.net">International League of Pedants</a> - 10 replies </div>

harry 2004-07-18T18:59:43Z fofalex http://ilop.tribe.net/thread/f1cc1843-b75e-4121-9226-12cc1fae24ca 2004-06-21T14:27:51Z 2004-06-14T03:06:54Z

<div>I got an email from one of the quality engineers where I work that had this in it: <br/> <br/>want's <br/> <br/>Arrgh. I also see an alarming amount of apostrophes misused to pluralize (sample's). WTF?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://ilop.tribe.net">International League of Pedants</a> - 4 replies </div>

fofalex 2004-06-14T03:06:54Z sianyb http://ilop.tribe.net/thread/ff76e8df-6f84-44ff-a7ac-f6fc0a5e76c8 2004-06-02T18:06:00Z 2004-04-16T06:45:40Z

<div>My pet neck-hair erector is "leveraged". As in "we leveraged the deal and made them give us their lunch money". <br/> <br/>Leverage=noun <br/>Leveraged=pompous moron</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://ilop.tribe.net">International League of Pedants</a> - 17 replies </div>

sianyb 2004-04-16T06:45:40Z spidra http://ilop.tribe.net/thread/634a3979-d428-403a-9696-ddc9adddb666 2004-05-22T00:01:57Z 2004-03-05T02:58:19Z

<div>Poo B! Who ribbed me about a typo I made in my own goddamned tribe. This man is a tireless champion of pedantry. The merely tightass quail before him!</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://ilop.tribe.net">International League of Pedants</a> - 4 replies </div>

spidra 2004-03-05T02:58:19Z starchymcpants http://ilop.tribe.net/thread/f9d5e783-176d-49d7-8f95-b6d694cf82fa 2004-04-17T17:37:58Z 2004-04-17T04:08:36Z

<div>As I was meandering along the sidewalk a few days ago, I noticed a woman with a shirt on. In and of itself, that might not seem an event worth recounting, but bear in mind that this shirt had words printed on it. What, you may ask, were those words? <br/> <br/>"KNOW <br/>IT ALL" <br/> <br/>I felt temptation overtake me, but restraint won the day. As much as I wanted to, I did not ask her, "Shouldn't that be hyphenated? Do you really mean that statement as an imperative?" <br/> <br/>Now, of course, I only regret my tactful silence.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://ilop.tribe.net">International League of Pedants</a> - 6 replies </div>

starchymcpants 2004-04-17T04:08:36Z spidra http://ilop.tribe.net/thread/b95edc98-3095-4fca-9818-928ea6a13408 2004-04-03T04:59:28Z 2004-03-30T18:42:23Z

<div>From a City of Berkeley Press Release: <br/> <br/>"All of these cases involved lone female drivers who were brandished with a knife and forced into the passenger seat."</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://ilop.tribe.net">International League of Pedants</a> - 4 replies </div>

spidra 2004-03-30T18:42:23Z starchymcpants http://ilop.tribe.net/thread/7353c6ce-6f20-462b-8adc-2a57e976655e 2004-03-31T01:03:49Z 2004-03-26T00:53:48Z

<div>I just picked up a copy of the Chicago Manual of Style. <br/> <br/>Yes. Oh yes.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://ilop.tribe.net">International League of Pedants</a> - 16 replies </div>

starchymcpants 2004-03-26T00:53:48Z http://ilop.tribe.net/thread/fd4fce04-49e2-49aa-bc65-0ac62adf6aa9 2004-03-01T21:48:54Z 2004-03-01T02:40:36Z

<div>no one is being very pedantic...in fact I hear crickets chirping...:) I am ready for the pedantry...lets go! :)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://ilop.tribe.net">International League of Pedants</a> - 7 replies </div>

2004-03-01T02:40:36Z theminx http://ilop.tribe.net/thread/72367c1e-e6a3-4e74-89bc-619a26bf27b2 2004-02-25T16:52:13Z 2004-01-25T05:43:13Z

<div>Because I always wanted to join an International League. <br/> <br/>The only other one with which I was even remotely connected was the International League of Intellectual Fascists (an Ayn Rand groupie group), and, pedant though I am, I did not care to be associated with that league...I am not fond of any sort of fascism. But that was another time, another place. <br/> <br/>And I know, you will all (both) now crack the pedantic whip at me for having begun two sentences with conjunctions. <br/> <br/>Bwa-ha-ha!!!!</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://ilop.tribe.net">International League of Pedants</a> - 7 replies </div>

theminx 2004-01-25T05:43:13Z dq http://ilop.tribe.net/thread/94258604-f298-4f4d-a20a-16d0a8ade2f8 2004-01-22T21:36:08Z 2004-01-22T21:14:48Z

<div>"YOUR" (yr, yôr, yr; yr when unstressed) <br/> <br/>adj. The possessive form of you. <br/> <br/>Used as a modifier before a noun: your boots; your accomplishments. <br/> <br/>A person's; one's: The light switch is on your right. <br/> <br/>Informal. Used with little or no sense of possession to indicate a type familiar to the listener: your basic three-story frame house. <br/> <br/>[versus] <br/> <br/>"YOU'RE" (yr; yr when unstressed) <br/> <br/>Contraction of you are. <br/> <br/>********* <br/>this has bothered me since jr high and people would sign my yearbook: "your a grate guy", "your realy funny", etc</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://ilop.tribe.net">International League of Pedants</a> - 2 replies </div>

dq 2004-01-22T21:14:48Z