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Posted Jul 28, 2009 21:38 UTC (Tue) by jordanb (guest, #45668)
In reply to: (Offtopic) credit card charges by drag
Parent article: Linux Foundation launches affinity credit card

You score on the pedant-o-meter: 17

Bravo, sir. Bravo.

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Posted Jul 28, 2009 23:34 UTC (Tue) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link] (3 responses)

"You" should be "Your" in the above sentence.

Do I get a higher score now? :)

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Posted Jul 29, 2009 1:24 UTC (Wed) by SEMW (guest, #52697) [Link] (2 responses)

It's interpretable both ways: "You[r] score on the pedant-o-meter [is] 17", or "You score [the following] on the pedant-o-meter: 17".

Since it seems to me that "the following" is more likely to be discarded as grammatical filler than "is", I think jordonb was probably going for the latter; so "You" would have been correct.

On which note I think I win :)

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Posted Jul 29, 2009 2:24 UTC (Wed) by jordanb (guest, #45668) [Link]

Yeah, I'll go with that.

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Posted Jul 29, 2009 17:31 UTC (Wed) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

Bravo. I bow to your superior pedantry. ;)