What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?

NotNotMike@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 456 points –

For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"

1246

You are viewing a single comment
View all comments

The Oxford comma.

That was my first thought as well, but it's not pointless, so I don't think it belongs in this thread.

I’m so irritated because I allowed myself to get out of the habit. I worked at a place for eight years where the marketing department insisted on not using it as part of their style guidelines and we were all supposed to follow suit. I disagreed in principle (and actually I’m pretty sure the marketing director agreed with me, but was overruled by the executive director) but still had to adapt, and I guess eight years was long enough that I don’t automatically put it in anymore and it pisses me off that I now have to think about it.

I'll go a step further.

I regularly use comma's commas where they don't belong, just to reflect my speech patterns IRL.

And, apparently, apostrophes too.

Dammit

I thought it was deliberate for the LOLs

Nope, I'm just a bit stupid from time to time.

This was the most refreshingly honest answer I've read in a long time. And it made me laugh. Thanks for both.

This, but also I just use my native language punctuation rules and hope for the best.

Woah, woah, woah. Let's not get too carried way here. Some things we just shouldn't talk about.

I know it’s a touchy subject. I’m sorry :(