On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Scott MacDonald doc.wikipedia@ntlworld.com wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikien-l- bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ray Saintonge Sent: 04 October 2011 21:08 To: English Wikipedia Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Facepalm?
On 10/04/11 3:51 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:04, Scott MacDonald doc.wikipedia@ntlworld.com 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.
Ec
To be pedantic, I think you mean verbosity.
What part of "Ten foot pole, not touching." don't you understand. Would that work better?
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
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
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.
Bringing this back to sharp sticklike pointy things... The Finnish wikipedia template for one sentence microstubs is kalled HOK, an abbreviation for "Hauki On Kala". ("The pike is a fish." -- A classic Finnish repartee form for commenting about someone stating the obvious.) and includes a delicious image of that particular fish in thumbnail form. Not really a troutslap, but who is picky...