purpleinopp said:Uh-oh, I try to operate in a snark-free bubble. If it was perceived that what I said arose from snark, please know that it didn't.
Oh, no. I fully embrace my inner snarkiness. Grammar, spelling and vocabulary are inordinately important to me. I was commenting on my linguistic snarkiness, not yours.
This post put me in mind of one of the most erudite of fictional detectives, imminently re-readable even if light; Nero Wolfe. I paraphrase in quoting
"In this house, contact is not a verb."
"Mr. Wolfe is in the middle of a fit. It's complicated. There's a fireplace in the front room, but it's never lit because he hates open fires. He says they stultify mental processes. But it's lit now because he's using it. He's seated in front of it, on a chair too small for him, tearing sheets out of a book and burning them. The book is the new edition, the third edition, of Webster's New International Dictionary, Unabridged, published by the G. & C. Merriam Company of Springfield, Massachusetts. He considers it subversive because it threatens the integrity of the English language...."
And, as Wolfe was a famed orchid grower, it may even pass muster as a garden-related post.
