lawrence@lemmy.worldM to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 7 months agoThe Pedants Clublemmy.worldimagemessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1811arrow-down17file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareRickRussell_CA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up148arrow-down4·7 months agoMisinterpreting contextually appropriate diction is not pedantry.
minus-squarerockSlayer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up134·7 months agoYou should start going to meetings
minus-squareEmpricorn@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48·7 months agoBut they should participate, so technically they should attend meetings.
minus-squarejubilationtcornponelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·7 months agoWell attending doesn’t necessarily imply participating. …Will someone please forward the meeting invite to me? I’d like to attend. Whether I participate is yet to be seen.
minus-squareRolando@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoWell, it’s yet to be HEARD. Unless we’re able to see all participants at the same time
minus-squaremorrowind@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoNo, it is indeed more likely to be seen via online text, as most people do not have irl contact with OP nor their phone number
minus-squareEmpricorn@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months ago…and we don’t have deer/frog eyes. Wow, this conversation has gone off the rails.
minus-squarenumberfour002@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoTechnically, there were no rails to begin with. So, if the conversation was never on the the non-existent rails, it certainly could not have gone off them.
minus-squaremorrowind@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months ago“Off the rails” is clearly an idiom in this scenario, and the “rails” are a metaphor for the original line ideation, which has been lost.
Misinterpreting contextually appropriate diction is not pedantry.
You should start going to meetings
But they should participate, so technically they should attend meetings.
Well attending doesn’t necessarily imply participating.
…Will someone please forward the meeting invite to me? I’d like to attend. Whether I participate is yet to be seen.
Well, it’s yet to be HEARD. Unless we’re able to see all participants at the same time
No, it is indeed more likely to be seen via online text, as most people do not have irl contact with OP nor their phone number
…and we don’t have deer/frog eyes. Wow, this conversation has gone off the rails.
Technically, there were no rails to begin with. So, if the conversation was never on the the non-existent rails, it certainly could not have gone off them.
“Off the rails” is clearly an idiom in this scenario, and the “rails” are a metaphor for the original line ideation, which has been lost.
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Technically.