and nothing of real value was lost.The there group dropped and it ain't looking like they coming back
Still at a faaar more reliable release pacing than GDS lolSorry for the delay, folks. Scyllae's dog literally ate his internet.
You're being overly pedantic. Even Merriam-Webster, says the all y'all of us in North 'murica don't know the difference between a "podium" and "lectern" and use the terms interchangeably in most contexts.That's not a podium; that's a lectern. One stands upon a podium; one stands behind a lectern, which has materials to be read.
(Even Galaxy Degen Scans got that much right.)
The term “overly pedantic” is inept, as it suggests that some level of pedantry is just fine. Pedantry is by definition excessive.You're being overly pedantic. Even Merriam-Webster, says the all y'all of us in North 'murica don't know the difference between a "podium" and "lectern" and use the terms interchangeably in most contexts.
In the Commonwealth Realms they use the King's English now.Guess I'd better go change all of Yua's speech to the Queen's English.
I can't even trust dictionaries anymore!The term “overly pedantic” is inept, as it suggests that some level of pedantry is just fine. Pedantry is by definition excessive.
Issues of language have never been settled by common use, but instead by the use of those whose writings are published, with the choices of more careful writers getting still more weight. If more common use were the determinant, then language would not so much evolve as devolve. And the reason that people who write for publication aren't typically as sloppy about the distinction between “lectern” and “podium” is because such sloppiness discernibly reduces the power of the language. The difference is not a matter of technical minutia.
M-W is not a reliable source, as illustrated by how, literally overnight, they changed their definition to claim that a term were offensive, exactly and only because a politician seeking to score a hit had claimed as much, with which politician M-W was strategically aligned.
Issues of language have never been settled by common use, but instead by the use of those whose writings are published, with the choices of more careful writers getting still more weight.