Pedants Corner

[trendie]

cant help being pedantic on things......

has anyone noticed the FxPro advert?? (the Sauber F1 supporter)

anyway, one of the selling points is to urge traders to "Leverage your Perfomance"!

You would think they could afford a proofreader!

EDIT: and another thing...
another of the "spiel" is "Forex, Stocks, Futures and Indexes".
Last time I looked, they were called "Indices".

 

[shadowninja]

It's "Pedants' Corner". (Assuming the corner for all pedants.)

 

[Martinghoul]

And what's with the "cant" without an apostrophe? Seems you have a general aversion to them things...

 

[foredog]

you cannot helpyouslef can you.

 

[Technically Fundamental]

I've seen indices and indexes in professionally written papers. I don't know which is correct in finance but I do know that they use 'indices' in maths.

 

[Yuppie]

This is a major one... ...once you are aware of it, you'll literally be shocked at the amount of time people use it!...


Did you see what I did there?... The world 'literally'... People use it all the time to place more emphasis on something they are trying to put across. For the above statement to be valid I would have had to actually have received an electric-shock of some kind, or perhaps be in actual medical-type shock.

A while ago, I overheard a girl talking to someone about how she had been out one night and got extremely drunk, and was trying to describe how hungover she was the next day... "I was literally a vegetable!"...

Hmmm... a turnip perhaps?...

 

[Splitlink]

I've seen indices and indexes in professionally written papers. I don't know which is correct in finance but I do know that they use 'indices' in maths.

Mathematicians are more intellectual.

 

[everyonerich]

QUICK! stock is limited!

 

[trendie]

Mathematicians are more intellectual.

Or just autistic savants.

 

[Phil Mibbutz]

For the above statement to be valid I would have had to actually have received an electric-shock of some kind, or perhaps be in actual medical-type shock.

Careful with those split infinitives, Yuppie!

Actually, I think 'indexes' is a legitimate plural, actually. Actually and literally, etc (cont. P74).

 

[trendie]

the dangers of audio-to-text software:

the first paragraph from gfsignals.com email newsletter is: (Monday, July-20th)

"Hello, guys. We have a **** of good news for you. Our trading systems continue doing well and making profit. Some of them are even breaking all records!"

EDIT: the stars represent p1ss

 

[rathcoole_exile]

It's "Pedants' Corner". (Assuming the corner for all pedants.)

no, assuming the plural, it would be Pedants' Corner

 

[rathcoole_exile]

anyway, I only came here looking for new_trader,

then I realised it was for pedants

 

[Yuppie]

Careful with those split infinitives, Yuppie!

Actually, I think 'indexes' is a legitimate plural, actually. Actually and literally, etc (cont. P74).

Guilty as charged, m'lud...

 

[trendie]

the grammatical quality of insults seems to be diminishing.

There was a recent post to the effect of "F**k off, you tw@ts". (a disgruntled elitetrader refugee)

Now, if the "@" is a replacement for "at", then, surely it should be "F**k off, you tw@s".
The second "t" being redundant.

This is as irritating as people referring to their credit card "PIN number" instead of just "PIN", since the N represents "number". (otherwise people are referring to their Personal Identification Number number.)

 

[trendie]

Just occurred to me:

would a person disliking someone who notices details be called a "pedant scorner"?

 

[Yuppie]

Just occurred to me:

would a person disliking someone who notices details be called a "pedant scorner"?

...if a person spells out 'Baa Humbug!' in Christmas [fairy] lights are they celebrating Christmas or not?

 

[rathcoole_exile]

not in July they're not

 

[trendie]

re: thread titled "Optimists less likely to suffer heart attacks or die"

Surely he means optimists less likely to die "early"?

The opening sentence implies optimists are "less likely to die".

 

[BSD]

Crikey, and here I was thinking I'd live forever after reading that.