Are you a nitpicker?

[Alan]

Hi, I'm sure you have heard of 'nitpickers' -- the type of people who think they have brilliant ideas when they are capable of nothing but finding fault with others. Well, read my story and let me know what category you fall into:

Are you a nitpicker?
http://www.english-test.net/stories/42/index.html
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[prezbucky]

Pedants of the world, UNTIE!
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[Yankee]

[Alan]

Hi,

I think I have an inkling of what He he is on about namely that pedants should not unite but then that's simply a surmise.

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[prezbucky]

The origin of that post is an old high school friend's t-shirt. On that shirt was printed, "Bad spellers of the world, UNTIE!"
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[Torsten]

Tom, since this topic is about nitpicking (Alan, many thanks for that!), what about the correct spelling of "T-shirt". Capital T or not? (or what?) I mean, Wikipedia says yes, so what do you say?
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[prezbucky]

i don't know about that one... I suppose the capital t (T) makes sense since it resembles the shape of the shirt better than a small t does -- the small t looks more like a turtleneck.

hehe
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[Yankee]

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There's at least one dictionary with the turtleneck spelling:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Tisfor.shtml

Google is full of both versions.

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[prezbucky]

yeah, I've actually never formed an opinion regarding whether T(t-)-shirt (lol) should be spelled with small- or upper-case T(t).

So this Great Decision, be it in favor of the small or the big, is not one that will affect my day.

(though -- controlling for all other variables -- I generally cheer for David to defeat Goliath. Go Little T!)
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[Fan of Arabian horses]

Hi Alan!

Don?t you think you?re nitpiking/fusspotting/pettifogging (By the way, pettifogging is my favourite expression) ? I mean, you never would be able to achieve that range of vocabulary if you wouldn?t investigate your language or any else rather meticulous, wouldn?t you? And finally you never would be able to help us to improve our English skills.

So, no matter how strange expressions like "cheers" are for you, it?s anyway the same like putting in order the pencils at your writing table, isn?t it?

Michael