I’ve recently found this website, Grammarphobia, which I would like to devour all of, including their published books too. Being what you might call a pedant aspirant when it comes to grammar and correct use of idiom, I cannot rate the service Patricia and Stewart provide highly enough.
I found the website while looking for an authoritative opinion on “comedic” vs “comic”. And I found one. This is one of those (many, many) things that irritates me quite a lot – “comic” is a perfectly good word, with yes admittedly a few meanings, but somehow it’s been accepted by a LOT of people that “comedic” is somehow a better word. Well newsflash, silly people, you don’t go hearing a lot about “tragedic”, do you? No. Because there isn’t one, no-one needs it.
I have to try and restrain myself with these observations, of course. As Lynne Truss observed, with punctuation etc, anyone more pernickety than you is a tedious pedantic wanker, and anyone less assiduous is a slipshod ignoramus. We all have our fine lines to walk.
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