witch Posted November 8, 2010 Posted November 8, 2010 Can I just scream? ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh By all means use latin in speech but can you PLEASE spell correctly... It is PER SE, not PER SAY I know - pedantic to the max That's me!
GrumbleDook Posted November 8, 2010 Posted November 8, 2010 A friend got quite annoyed because every time someone would say PER SE, he thought they were extracting the urine from his name .... Percy. Poor chap.
HarryMonkey Posted November 9, 2010 Posted November 9, 2010 Is that latin or Latin? (Now that's pedantic to the max).
LeMarchand Posted November 10, 2010 Posted November 10, 2010 I've got a book on how to swear/insult people in Latin. You could get something similar and mumble something appropriate every time they do it.
elsiegee40 Posted November 10, 2010 Posted November 10, 2010 The one that gets me is ect. Little childrne can get it wrong, but adults working in schools should not! et cetera - two words - one abbreviation - etc (or etc. if you really want to be pedantic)
quietriot1983 Posted January 24, 2011 Posted January 24, 2011 Not Latin, but in the same vein, it really gets my goat when people write "on route" or "on mass." *Rage*
chrisbrown Posted January 25, 2011 Posted January 25, 2011 I'm a big fan of Q.E.D.. People don't appreciate the sentiment of the phrase.
sparkeh Posted January 25, 2011 Author Posted January 25, 2011 @elsiegee40 "Little childrne" edit: extra prize for spotting the second error in that sentence: "Little childrne can get it wrong, but adults working in schools should not! " Just being pedantic like
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