I swear, every time I make a slip of the tongue, some version of this guy shows up in my comments section: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxXV0QPXOWmc-v7TBs1Cask_5O2gKMWfLw?si=ALcWxzehNKehsQ12
bro seriously, get your shit together. she was an editor for 20 years before she was a novelist. she was never a poet by trade, her language just tended toward the poetic in a major way, it's to accentuate her communication with a precision that can only be attained by getting the right word, which is what the poet's entire life's work is geared toward.
"South chapel hill" why would anyone listen to anything this lazy ignoramus had to say beyond this point?
Hidd Msrp--comment
Get your facts straight mate, Mahfouz won the Nobel in 1988.Nobel Peace Prize for Literature?! How can you get that wrong when it's written right there and you point at it?
Did Jesus Exist? By Bart Ehrman: Book Review
When listing martyr traditions that happened outside the New Testament, I got the deaths of some of them mixed up. I said that James was killed by an arrow.
Apostle James never died from being shot with arrows. You seem very confused. He was beheaded by King Herod and he was the first apostle to die. This is elementary grade Christianity. It was Thaddeus (also known in Luke and acts as “Judas, son of James”) who was shot by arrows.
...I actually knew that James son of Zebedee was beheaded by King Herod in Acts--in fact I did a whole post on it over here. But I was talking in the video about the deaths that are outside of the New Testament, so I was thinking in my head about one of the other Jameses from the New Testament--James, brother of Jesus or James, son of Alphaeus. Obviously I got my martyrdoms mixed up in the heat of the moment, but the whole thing was just a throw-away comment in a tangential point on a 30 minute video.
But for the life of me, I don't know what causes some of these people to fly into a rage every time I get a small little detail wrong.
Or maybe this is just the comments section of Youtube generally. Go to any video with a lot of views on Youtube, and you'll see a lot of negativity.
You have to get all 3 of these to be considered a pedant in my book.
This guy has made a hobby out of listing everything I got wrong in all of my Flashman videos, but as he makes some good points, and has pointed out multiple inaccuracies, I'll give him a pass. He's not a pedant.
This guy takes issue with my pronunciation of French names, which I consider a minor thing, but he's not especially rude about it, so we'll give him a pass. He's not a pedant.
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Ah, I shouldn't have written this post. Negative comments are a part of social media. Ignore them and move on.
Sorry... I was just in a certain mood today.
>>>Maybe I attract these kind of comments? Maybe I have a demeanor which aggravates people? Maybe I come off as smug and pseudo-intellectual, and trying to sound smarter than I am, and then people can't wait to try to take me down a peg when I mess up on something minor.
Actually, upon further reflection, this is probably exactly what it is. I think I come across as an annoying smug know-it-all, and the fact that I act so arrogantly combined with the fact that I get so much stuff wrong must aggravate people.
At this late stage in life, I'm not sure how much luck I'm going have changing my personality, but what I can do is to be more tolerant of other people's corrections.
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