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Pedantry incoming- one of my greatest pet peeves is when some words in a list, or diagram, are in their adjectival form and some are in their verbal form. "Sur
by DontchaKnowit 3y ago
Pedantry incoming-
one of my greatest pet peeves is when some words in a list, or diagram, are in their adjectival form and some are in their verbal form. "Surprising" + "horrify"
It really unnerves me. The worst is that nearly every company has this in some form in their promotional or educational materials.
E.g. here at Genericorp, we prioritize the following valurs : integrity, kindness, honest,
Etc
You get my point. Drives me nuts this kind of thing constantly slips through the cracks.
- Joker_vD 3y agoWell, the axiis are orthogonal. One of them is for the thing's quality, another is for the thing's action, so you get adjectives along one axis, and verbs along the other.
- DontchaKnowit 3y agoYeah thats fair. Not a great example. Still irked me tho.
- ezrast 3y agoThe grammatical term for this is - perhaps surprisingly, for this crowd - "parallelism".
- Tao3300 3y agoIts impotent to halve clear valurs.