As someone who is frequently pedantic I sometimes sit and hypocritically brood on which unnecessary pedantry from other people annoys me most I've decided it's people who try to draw a distinction between the word "possum" and "opossum"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Mine was always "It's not a boat, it's a ship."
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Replying to @jayonaboat @arthur_affect
Q: What's the difference between a boat and a ship? A: A boat captain doesn't care if you call it a ship, a ship captain cares if you call it a boat. (Granted, unlike possums, there are actual legal & logistical reasons to care about the distinction. Possums, probably not.)
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Replying to @zer0jack @jayonaboat
There's this whole complicit history with how submarines are always called "boats" rather than "ships", even though modern submarines are huge and have people living on them for months at a time
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*complicated
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