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You receive an email that offends your pedantic sensibilities. The sender has apostrophes all over the place, they're mixing their metaphors, and... *gasp* they've referred to some esoteric poetry as containing iambic pentameter, when you KNOW it's written entirely in trochaic trimeter. Oh, and they're
doing something with gerunds that's illegal in six states.
Before your brain explodes in a fit of pedantic rage, you reach out and tap the "Subject this email to the strictures of the pedant filter." button.
The email is then sent to a cabal of "Pedants Anonymous", who debate its structure and content for as long as they deem necessary, before agreeing on a corrected form of the original email. Then, sixty years after the first email was sent, and long after the sender has forgotten that you ever existed, they receive an email: "Your email was rejected on grounds of poor spelling, grammar, and knowledge of the metres of poetry. You may have meant..."
And you can die happy.
(With all apologies to [Texticle] and the "Incomprehensible Email Bouncing Tool")
My inspiration. Thanks to [texticle].
Incomprehensible_20...l_20Bouncing_20Tool
[m_Al_com, May 21 2006]
... translators who turn X into something more palatable ...
http://www.halfbake.../help.html#advocacy
Hm. Shouldn't that be translators *that* turn X into something more palatable? [jutta, May 21 2006]
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Shame, I was all ready to bun a filter or system which allowed you to simply bounce the email back with a pedant notice, without the long wait. |
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\\Shouldn't that be translators *that* turn X into something more palatable? \\ That depends. If yours is like my Arnold (he speaks English, Russian and Icelandic) then no, it shouldn't. |
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Apology accepted. By the way, it's a capital T, being a proper noun and all. |
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Sorry, [Texticle]. Fixed. I tried so hard to make it pedant-proof, as well! Oh, and [Germanicus], the sixty-year wait is but a dismayed acceptance of the fact that, well, with a cabal of hyper-pedants arguing over every detail of the original, it's just going to take that long. |
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What are these? The testicles of wayward apos that blundered into your yard? |
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Oh, cripes, that was a gut shot. |
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And it didn't take him sixty years! |
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I think it-d be MORE FUN to turn reasonable text, in-to a pendants's nightmare; full of teeth grinding mis-takes!!! |
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Might be a nice spam filter, too. |
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It is, in a way. A large subset of my spam is written using SMS conventions, and none of my real email is. For the next generation of kids with friends who *do* send them "ru there" style emails, it must be a lot tougher to filter! |
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