Pedant’s revolt
February 23rd, 2009
I just received the most fucking annoying email ever. It read…
“If I can be an anal retainer for a moment, I’d say the ‘Free Book Extras…’ section on your site should not say ‘The whole thing, in pdf format’. The F in PDF stands for ‘format’, so the ‘The whole thing, in PDF’ would be better. You’d get extra points for wrapping ‘PDF’ in the abbr tag, as in ‘The whole thing, in <abbr title=”Portable Document Format”>PDF</abbr>’.”
It’s fucking annoying because he’s right.
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