Comments on: PEDANT (noun)

By: katie k

katie k — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:45:46 +0000

As an English teacher with a background in linguistics, I feel I can say with confidence: This person is a dick.

By: shepd

shepd — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:49:58 +0000

I didn’t know green bar came back in style. Bonus hipster points for the fact it’s no longer for printers!

By: MissDragonMage

MissDragonMage — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:12:20 +0000

As a former library volunteer, I understand the pain that both the ‘lowly undergrad’ and the library go through. Yes, the signs drove me nuts. However, the fact that he did his research and the note was written very nicely (by way of notes) shows that he truly cares. Undergrads typically don’t have a life (undergrad myself).

Libraries ask you not to reshelve books due to A) they want to keep records of what books are being used and B) people are stupid and don’t reshelve them correctly, especially when you get into the non fiction. Even I have made the mistake, and I used to volunteer and knew where every book in the library went.

By: notolaf the elementary school teacher

notolaf the elementary school teacher — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:48:41 +0000

Has it occurred to you that your acquaintance who won’t read may not be able to?

By: Clumber

Clumber — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:02:50 +0000

#5.3 Ajax –
BWAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAAHHAHAA
(choking from laughter, dude you should have 100 thumbs!)

Dammit now my ribs reache.

By: Lythande

Lythande — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:07:17 +0000

My roommate’s college has it on T-shirts. :/ That’s when I decided I didn’t want to attend said college.

By: DC

DC — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 04:16:36 +0000

Did anyone else picture Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory when reading this note?

By: harold

harold — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:13:21 +0000

I thought they were referring to the time honored reshelfing students do when they don’t want their classmates to use that book i.e. being dicks and hiding certain books during term-paper season.

By: Bram

Bram — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:04:12 +0000

I bet Microsoft Word doesn’t accept “Frankenstien” as a properly spelled word. Any takers?

By: Lara

Lara — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:37:17 +0000

On the other hand, let’s not use Microsoft Word as the final authority on grammar.

By: Lara

Lara — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:34:12 +0000

Pendants or pedants?

By: L

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:16:03 +0000

Because sometimes people ARE too stupid to do it, at least properly, so when you go to pull a book for a hold or a patron or because YOU FREAKING WANT IT, it’s not where it supposed to be.

By: Frankenstien

Frankenstien — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:35:36 +0000

Microsoft word doesn’t accept “reshelve” as properly spelled word, so I think it’s reshelf. To shelve is a verb, but I do believe that you are to reshelf a book as once again shelve it. The library is correct on this one.

By: Amy In Toronto

Amy In Toronto — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:23:32 +0000

I think I broke out into a mild rash the day that “disorientate” made it into an actual dictionary because a critical mass of people were unable to discern the root word and use it properly.

Same goes for the past tense of “to lead” (led). Now I’m irritated every time I see a newspaper print a sentence that reads something like, “And he lead the people to victory!” and it’s considered grammatically sound. Bah!