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1 hour ago, Engorged Onion said:

‘Cause this a page of pedantry - can you elucidate where the irony is? 

 

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2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Grammatically incorrect. You should be using the present participle, ie, versing.

No LDvC their versing us where verse them. There a good side pacifically at they're home.

Edited by ManDee
It is hard to get it that wrong!

2 hours ago, Grapeviney said:

For all intensive purposes, this is a great thread.

I literally die every time someone mis-spells a player's name.

 

Literally died Grapeviney or is it more of a literary death? Of course if it was the former I shan’t expect a reply 

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2 hours ago, Engorged Onion said:

‘Cause this a page of pedantry - can you elucidate where the irony is? 

Merely stating the coincidence that both Jordon and Jordan's player number was #23 but as you said this is a pedantry page...

3 hours ago, dieter said:

Yawohl: you are correct. I assumed people knew that! Imagine the turmoil had I spelt it as Veideman?

Hey Dieter. I thought 'ei' was pronounced the same as eye.

So Neitz would sound the same as knights. 

Have I misunderstood? 

 

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Isn't this why we have nicknames for the players,  Gorny, Trak, Klarrie, Vynes, weedz and Maisy. That way you cant go wrong. 

 
17 hours ago, demonstone said:

Sam Weideman, at various times, has been called Wiedeman, Weiderman and Weidemann.  

The gold medal however goes to the unfortunate and unnamed poster who spelled it as Wiedermann, thus getting it wrong three different ways in one go.

I will only ever call him Weeds.  I will over think it otherwise.


40 minutes ago, The Swimming Dee said:

I heard that Christian Salem has resigned

I do a double take every time...every time.

2 hours ago, Melb-A-Toast said:

Hey Dieter. I thought 'ei' was pronounced the same as eye.

So Neitz would sound the same as knights. 

Have I misunderstood? 

 

Aldo depends on where in Germany, Switzerland or Austria you came from: in my company 'eye' is pronounced ' Ay', more like 'hey'...


Is this just two much pedantasism, or even prehaps pedantry???

Quality thread, this.

19 hours ago, Caligula's cohort said:

Nietschke, Fritsch and Bradtke I've noticed for some are hard to get right. Ironically Jordon is wearing number '23' which was made famous by Michael Jordan.  

And Shane Fitsimmons

17 hours ago, Fanatique Demon said:

Maybe it’s Kosi.

Mozart was ahead of his time when he wrote his famous opera "Cosi Fan Tutte", meaning "We're All Kosi Fans". (There's no 'k' in Italian, hence the spelling difference.)

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