Pedant's corner (or should that be pedants' corner?)

[Biffo]

Croke has a far better drainage system than Lansdowne though which is often like a swimming pool. Surface shouldn't cut either. It's a good pitch.

Croke PARK. Croke was a bishop.

Lansdowne ROAD. Lansdowne are is a club.

You're right on the differences in the drainage, as Croke Park isn't on the flood plain of the Dodder (water table in LR is about a metre under the surface). But the pitch is notoriously slippy, even at the best of times, and the concerts there this year rightly buggered up the pitch. After pissing rain, it could well be iffy.

Fixed. You are not the only pedant at play today.

 

[Biffo]

Re: Wallabies v Ireland

Truly fantastic pedantry – the old are/is debate when referring to a club or band. My hat goes off to you sir!

Now to follow this grammatical tangent until it wears a hole in the interweb ...

I am very pedantic in detesting pedantry.

errrr, tangents can't wear holes in anything :lmao:

Fixed up your metrics yet?

 

[Hugonaut]

Re: Wallabies v Ireland

I am very pedantic in detesting pedantry.

errrr, tangents can't wear holes in anything :lmao:

Fixed up your metrics yet?

Jesus, rightly put in my box.

 

[Thomond78]

Re: Wallabies v Ireland

Croke has a far better drainage system than Lansdowne though which is often like a swimming pool. Surface shouldn't cut either. It's a good pitch.

Croke PARK. Croke was a bishop.

Lansdowne ROAD. Lansdowne are is a club.

You're right on the differences in the drainage, as Croke Park isn't on the flood plain of the Dodder (water table in LR is about a metre under the surface). But the pitch is notoriously slippy, even at the best of times, and the concerts there this year rightly buggered up the pitch. After pissing rain, it could well be iffy.

Fixed. You are not the only pedant at play today.

But they're not an incorporated one, just an associated club. Therefore, the plural, referring as it does to the trustees and members, is correct.

You're a big lad, but you're out of shape; for me, it's a full-time job...

 

[Thomond78]

Re: Wallabies v Ireland

Truly fantastic pedantry – the old are/is debate when referring to a club or band. My hat goes off to you sir!

Now to follow this grammatical tangent until it wears a hole in the interweb ...

I am very pedantic in detesting pedantry.

errrr, tangents can't wear holes in anything :lmao:

Fixed up your metrics yet?

Aha! Yes, they can! Because a line is tangential to one thing does not mean it's tangential to all other things. Therefore, a tangent can wear a hole in something to which it is not tangential and with which it is in contact!

The SH Pedant's Shield is now nestling next to the 6N one from Gwlad in my trophy cabinet. :yay

 

[Biffo]

Re: Wallabies v Ireland

Truly fantastic pedantry – the old are/is debate when referring to a club or band. My hat goes off to you sir!

Now to follow this grammatical tangent until it wears a hole in the interweb ...

I am very pedantic in detesting pedantry.

errrr, tangents can't wear holes in anything :lmao:

Fixed up your metrics yet?

Aha! Yes, they can! Because a line is tangential to one thing does not mean it's tangential to all other things. Therefore, a tangent can wear a hole in something to which it is not tangential and with which it is in contact!

The SH Pedant's Shield is now nestling next to the 6N one from Gwlad in my trophy cabinet. :yay

Your hypothetical tangent damaging something external will occur only if it is long enough to reach that something.

Hand over the trophy pdq, pretender. :yay

I have to observe that your tangents are long enough to damage anything between here and the sun. :lmao:

 

[Thomond78]

Re: Wallabies v Ireland

Truly fantastic pedantry – the old are/is debate when referring to a club or band. My hat goes off to you sir!

Now to follow this grammatical tangent until it wears a hole in the interweb ...

I am very pedantic in detesting pedantry.

errrr, tangents can't wear holes in anything :lmao:

Fixed up your metrics yet?

Aha! Yes, they can! Because a line is tangential to one thing does not mean it's tangential to all other things. Therefore, a tangent can wear a hole in something to which it is not tangential and with which it is in contact!

The SH Pedant's Shield is now nestling next to the 6N one from Gwlad in my trophy cabinet. :yay

Your hypothetical tangent damaging something external will occur only if it is long enough to reach that something.

Hand over the trophy pdq, pretender. :yay

I have to observe that your tangents are long enough to damage anything between here and the sun. :lmao:

So isn't a problem at all. Take a standard X/Y axis from origin, and a circle of radius one to which both the X and Y axes are tangential on the positive side. The X and Y axes are both tangential to the circle and both intersect in a very short space. You can even do this with straight paper clips and a round coin, if you want. I'd further observe that you made your comment about all tangents without any reservation, and that's clearly incorrect and has been falsified.

The Grand Unified Pedant's Shield is mine, butty bach, and remains mine; and you'd better up your game.

 

[Biffo]

Re: Wallabies v Ireland

Truly fantastic pedantry – the old are/is debate when referring to a club or band. My hat goes off to you sir!

Now to follow this grammatical tangent until it wears a hole in the interweb ...

I am very pedantic in detesting pedantry.

errrr, tangents can't wear holes in anything :lmao:

Fixed up your metrics yet?

Aha! Yes, they can! Because a line is tangential to one thing does not mean it's tangential to all other things. Therefore, a tangent can wear a hole in something to which it is not tangential and with which it is in contact!

The SH Pedant's Shield is now nestling next to the 6N one from Gwlad in my trophy cabinet. :yay

Your hypothetical tangent damaging something external will occur only if it is long enough to reach that something.

Hand over the trophy pdq, pretender. :yay

I have to observe that your tangents are long enough to damage anything between here and the sun. :lmao:

So isn't a problem at all. Take a standard X/Y axis from origin, and a circle of radius one to which both the X and Y axes are tangential on the positive side. The X and Y axes are both tangential to the circle and both intersect in a very short space. You can even do this with straight paper clips and a round coin, if you want. I'd further observe that you made your comment about all tangents without any reservation, and that's clearly incorrect and has been falsified.

The Grand Unified Pedant's Shield is mine, butty bach, and remains mine; and you'd better up your game.

So, your tangents wear holes in each other? A line of infinitessimal width wears a hole in another line of infinitessimal width?

Stick your trophy where the sun don't shine - and I am not referring to Bishop Cloke's park.

 

[Thomond78]

Re: Wallabies v Ireland

Truly fantastic pedantry – the old are/is debate when referring to a club or band. My hat goes off to you sir!

Now to follow this grammatical tangent until it wears a hole in the interweb ...

I am very pedantic in detesting pedantry.

errrr, tangents can't wear holes in anything :lmao:

Fixed up your metrics yet?

Aha! Yes, they can! Because a line is tangential to one thing does not mean it's tangential to all other things. Therefore, a tangent can wear a hole in something to which it is not tangential and with which it is in contact!

The SH Pedant's Shield is now nestling next to the 6N one from Gwlad in my trophy cabinet. :yay

Your hypothetical tangent damaging something external will occur only if it is long enough to reach that something.

Hand over the trophy pdq, pretender. :yay

I have to observe that your tangents are long enough to damage anything between here and the sun. :lmao:

So isn't a problem at all. Take a standard X/Y axis from origin, and a circle of radius one to which both the X and Y axes are tangential on the positive side. The X and Y axes are both tangential to the circle and both intersect in a very short space. You can even do this with straight paper clips and a round coin, if you want. I'd further observe that you made your comment about all tangents without any reservation, and that's clearly incorrect and has been falsified.

The Grand Unified Pedant's Shield is mine, butty bach, and remains mine; and you'd better up your game.

So, your tangents wear holes in each other? A line of infinitessimal width wears a hole in another line of infinitessimal width?

Stick your trophy where the sun don't shine - and I am not referring to Bishop Cloke's park.

Oh, dear me.

A geometric line is of no width, not of infinitessimal width. But real objects can (at the macro level, granted) be tangential to each other, as my example of the straightened clips and coin makes clear.

Shines up nicely, this Shield...

 

[Biffo]

Re: Wallabies v Ireland

Truly fantastic pedantry – the old are/is debate when referring to a club or band. My hat goes off to you sir!

Now to follow this grammatical tangent until it wears a hole in the interweb ...

I am very pedantic in detesting pedantry.

errrr, tangents can't wear holes in anything :lmao:

Fixed up your metrics yet?

Aha! Yes, they can! Because a line is tangential to one thing does not mean it's tangential to all other things. Therefore, a tangent can wear a hole in something to which it is not tangential and with which it is in contact!

The SH Pedant's Shield is now nestling next to the 6N one from Gwlad in my trophy cabinet. :yay

Your hypothetical tangent damaging something external will occur only if it is long enough to reach that something.

Hand over the trophy pdq, pretender. :yay

I have to observe that your tangents are long enough to damage anything between here and the sun. :lmao:

So isn't a problem at all. Take a standard X/Y axis from origin, and a circle of radius one to which both the X and Y axes are tangential on the positive side. The X and Y axes are both tangential to the circle and both intersect in a very short space. You can even do this with straight paper clips and a round coin, if you want. I'd further observe that you made your comment about all tangents without any reservation, and that's clearly incorrect and has been falsified.

The Grand Unified Pedant's Shield is mine, butty bach, and remains mine; and you'd better up your game.

So, your tangents wear holes in each other? A line of infinitessimal width wears a hole in another line of infinitessimal width?

Stick your trophy where the sun don't shine - and I am not referring to Bishop Cloke's park.

Oh, dear me.

A geometric line is of no width, not of infinitessimal width. But real objects can (at the macro level, granted) be tangential to each other, as my example of the straightened clips and coin makes clear.

Shines up nicely, this Shield...

So you should shine it before handing it over. How do two lines of no width make holes in each other?

You pay for the courier to deliver the shield. :angryfire:

 

[Thomond78]

Because, Biffo, not only were you wrong on tangents never intersecting, and on the nature of geometric lines, but also on the nature of real macro-level tangents, which we've shown can intersect and wear a hole in each other. If you think about it, that's exactly what the point of a drill bit does in a flat plate; it's tangential to the plate, but wears a hole in it.

I'll send you the bill for the engraver when he's finished putting my name on it, alright.

 

[Biffo]

I'd prefer pedants' corners With your tangents running every which way, there must be infinite corners?