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The Pedant Scale is a measure of the degree to which a piece of writing (such as the description of a Halfbakery idea) annoys pedants.
Each tut that a pedant utters on reading the idea's description is equivalent to 1 centipedant (cP) on the Pedant Scale.
A subtle or less significant error, such
that only one pedant in 10 would tut at it, is rated at 1 millipedant (mP).
For each error in the idea's description that a pedant feels compelled to publicly correct, the piece of writing gains one decipedant (dP). (In other words, one correction by a pedant is equivalent to 10 tuts.)
If the description contains mistakes irksome enough that even a normal person would correct an error in it, the idea is given a rating of 1 pedant (P) (i.e. it has made a normal person act as a pedant).
A description that contains so many infuriating errors that a pedant reading it would want to physically assault the author scores one decapedant (daP).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli
[DenholmRicshaw, Sep 09 2006]
http://www.freesear...nary/deck+%28hit%29
To deck [imaginality, Sep 09 2006]
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//idea's author deserves to be bitten by a venomous arthropod// you missed out the words 'on the bum' |
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Cheers, [po], now corrected. :-) |
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Pedant scale? I'm off it. |
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I'm sorry, I can't stop myself...
A tenth of a pedant would be a decipedant.
Ten pedants would be a decapedant.
One hundred pedants would be a hectopedant.
A centipedant would be one hundredth of a pedant. |
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Pedantophile ! - person addicted to
pedantic activity (I think I might be one)
Looks out window as angry mob advances
up street towards house, brandishing
burning out torches, along with badly spelt
slogans and missing punctuation marks. |
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What [DenholmRickshaw] said. Sort out your scales and I may proffer a bun. Tut. |
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Akin to Miss Snarks Crapometer, though shes yet to put numbers to it. |
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That, um, deliberate error was just my way of attracting the pedants, honest... |
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I've corrected it now, albeit at the cost of losing the centipede joke. |
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Can I have one for the measure to which pedantic diatribes annoy me? Perhaps I should start spelling it 'pendantic' again, just for fun. |
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