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[lolmac]

Kin u just salute da uniform?
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[thothmes.livejournal.com]

Well my daughter had recently sent me this link where Trekkies were responding in indignant squadrons to a misnumbering of Picard's Enterprise. The comments that were then visible are now (alas) lost in the morass of over 740 comments. One of them was from a "Dan Graystone, Caprica, TX" and went on in gloriously pedantic and nitpicking detail about which Enterprise number went with which Captain and which event, and it was not so much the information as its delivery which made me comment about nitpickers. My daughter and I just knew that somewhere Simon Coombes was nodding along in fervent agreement, relieved that Roddenberry's great vision was being preserved from the pillaging forces of inaccuracy.

btw. Self-nitpick: One "civvy". Internal editor says "Ooops. Forgot to pluralize." Ummmm... just adding an "s" is not the way to go. "Civvies".

[lolmac]

Ah, yes. Well, when a mainstream news medium gets a geeky detail wrong, they can expect to be jumped on by hordes of geeks with the knickers in a disproportionate state of knottedness. After all, the geeks are used to assuming that the mainstream media Doesn't Take Us Seriously. Strident group action (and over-reaction) seems to be the preferred method of trying to be taken seriously, or at least to get a little attention. My impression is that the success in the latter is usually attained in a manner that precludes any success in the former.

I quite admire the news site for apologising promptly, but even more for the tongue-in-cheek nature of the apology.

But this is my LJ, and I've cheerfully taken correction here before and intend to continue to do so, particularly if the information of proferred in courtesy. Comments that are obnoxious or incendiary are executed with extreme prejudice. Happily, there have been very very few of those!

I had also noticed the misspelling of 'civvies', and figured you'd be far more embarrassed if I left you to spot it on your own, bwahaha.

For extra credit, contemplate the extraordinary rarity of words with a double 'v'. The only other one I can think of offhand is 'flivver'.

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

Oh, I thought the news organization handled it all quite wonderfully. My daughter thought so too, which is part of the reason why she pointed the thing out to me. Her comment? She wrote of the temptation to mention to the man mentioned above ("Mom, he's somehow managed to work his knickers into a Moebius loop!") that the movie reboot might supercede all his carefully enumerated Enterprises, depending on how many Enterprises reboot!Kirk managed to burn through ("Must. Not. Be. That. Guy!"), and said of the organization, "And may God have mercy on their inboxes!"

And now I am going to toddle off to bed, secure in the knowledge that instead of sensibly popping off to sleep like a normal person would, that I will instead be lying there trying to think of double "v" words.

Fivver? No. That's fiver.

Quivvering? No. Quivering. Duh!

MacGyvvering? Idiot. Spell MacGyver! M-A-C-CapitalG-Y-V-E-R. Oh. Yeah. Shutting up now.

und so weiter... Until I givve up and drifft off to sleeppe.

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

Turned off the computer. Toddled towards bed. Immediately came up with "navvy" and "savvy". I slept well.

Edited because eldest daughter says "Revved. Don't forget revved, Mom!"