Slartibartfast 153 Posted September 3, 2010 Oh and just to make it more fun in Austria a Krapfen is a Doughnut... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Creaghorn 10 Posted September 3, 2010 Oh and just to make it more fun in Austria a Krapfen is a Doughnut... and a pancake is in austria called palatschinken and therefor in croatia palacinke... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NS13Jarhead 6 Posted September 3, 2010 How do you f*** a comma? This is a fairly good explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bpIbdZhrzA&feature=related Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Olham 164 Posted September 3, 2010 Oh yeah - Viktor Borge, one the Grandmasters of stage humour. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bullethead 12 Posted September 3, 2010 That's why I love idioms in language... 'currant pooper'. What a splendid anal - ogy Well, the term "nitpicker" is rather colorful in itself. "Nit" is an old-school popular term for the egg case of the head louse. Thus, picking nits involved carefully searching through the forest of somebody's scalp hair looking for the tiny parasite eggs. While this was a useful service prior to modern standards of hygiene, it does provide a analogy to finding minute flaws in large arguments. Pooping currants, picking nits, f***ing commas... Geez, people who act this way must be universally annoying for so many languages to come up with rather unflattering terms for them. Especially when the good old "pedant" was already available :). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
