Boogles's Pedantic Rants

It's fun to be punctilious!

Functionality

It isn't a word. When you improve a product, you make it more functional. What do you add? Function.

Inferring vs. insinuating (guest rant from RS)

"... Are you inferring...?"
"No, _I_ am insinuating. _YOU_ are inferring."

Gold Bouillon (guest rant from RS)

On misc.survivalism, some guy was posting about a y2k precious metal hoarde. He didn't know the difference between bouillon and bullion.

Juryrigging (guest rant from RS)

JERRY-rigged, goddamnit, not JURY-rigged.

Like Jerry-Cans. It's a testimony to those clever Germans...