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Serious pedantry (sorry, The Word)
Posted by herecomesbod on 9 January 2012 - 9:38pm.
The subscribers edition came today. Hooray. The subscribers letter was included therein. Hooray. Last month (issue 107) the paper used for the letter was now the same size as the magazine, meaning it didn't get all crumpled at the top, I use it as a page marker you see. Hooray. The letter with issue 108 is back to the old A4 size. Boo. Please explain, The Word. Yes, yes, I know this is really picky, I just want to know, that's all.
Note to all
I suggested this change a while back and Mr Ellen made some positive comments, has he been over-ruled?
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No overrule
We'll shift everyone to the smaller size once our stock of the larger size has been exhausted - we don't want to dump a load of paper unnecessarily.
Thank you Fraser
A quick answer. A good answer, too. Me, being a pedant, I wouldn't want to waste paper either. Thanks again.
Is this really pedantry...
or just a question? If it isn't then I'm the pedant - if it is, I'm a buffoon.
And may I add
that I rumbled Mr Harrison as the author of that Dr Who piece with a mo of reading it and he fessed up immediately. Where's my prize?*
* if its a badge with NERD written on it I already have one
Sorry DogFacedBoy...
... I won THAT particular prize by emailing Mr Ellen the day the Subs Edition of 107 landed, with the very same Harrison-rumbling finger-pointing... And my letter about it is in 108.
Very pleased to know I'm not the only person who spotted it, mind. And pleased to know I'm not the only person with a badge with NERD on it.
... Or were you, you know, yanking my chain?
*loud cough*
I went straight
to the man Harrison on the same day, never mind the organ grinder
Winning!
In that case....
.... if you organise for every single copy of 108 to be gathered together and sent to me, I will Tippex* out my name and insert the moniker DogFacedBoy in its stead.
Perhaps The Man Harrison was too busy concocting another article with a Doctor Who connection (see this month's issue) to bother forwarding your note to Mr Ellen for consideration for the letters page?
* other liquid papers are available
No its ok
I shall just ask for the mag to be retitled 'Word About Dr Who Monthly'
The show does seem to...
... creep into almost every issue somewhere.
For the record, I would have liked to have read his take on Doctor Who mash-ups with Shameless (or was that the Rose and Jackie Tyler years?), Teachers (darn it - Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright) and Don't Scare The Hare (The K-9 years?)...
I wonder what light-on-its-feet article will be in the next issue? Comparisons of certain Doctors with certain rock stars?
What
Hartnell - Frank Sinatra
Troughton - Keith Moon
Pertween - Jimi Hendrix
Tom Baker - Captain Beefheart
Peter Davison - Justin Hayward
Colin Baker - Timmy Mallet
Sylvester McCoy - Midge Ure
Paul McGann - Leonard Cohen
Christopher Ecclestone - Chris Martin
David Tennant - Neil Tennant
Matt Smith - Johnny Greenwood
any excuse
An even more serious pedant writes
You have left out two apostrophes in your first sentence.
Detention is a possibility
Actually...
He missed out two apostrophes in the first LINE of his post. There's only one missing before the first full stop arrives.
I am a terrible person.
Now all we need
is someone to tell us whether it goes before or after the "s". Either could be acceptable, I guess.
I'm curious about the subscription letter, though. Does it contain details of the Word Secret Society meetings, how to do the Word handshake and where to send off for the Word pinny?
It's just a chance
for Mark Ellen to tell us subscribers what sub human scum those that don't subscribe really are.
It's really quite vicious.
OK gonna get this one right
I say subscribers' edition cos, y'know, there's more than one. I mean there are more than one.
Bang to rights
I am an apostrophe avoider as I never know where to put them, you see.
Here are some for you to sprinkle around anyway...'''''''''''
Fold it
in half.
Reminds me
Of the Spinal Tap backstage buffet scene
But if you keep folding it
Then it keeps breaking.
And then everything has to be folded...
And then you have...this. And I don't want this.
I
wouldn't want to eat that, no
This is...
...such a bizarre thread.
I feel especially loved
as I am the lucky recipient of two, count 'em, TWO copies of this months missive from our award winning editor's desk. Double the opportunity for paper cuts at no extra charge. Blimey.
On another pedantry tangent
Did I read 'Coventry United' in a photo caption of the last issue of the magazine? What league are they in?