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# Hello, dragon!
You're missing an apostrophe. Sorry, it's auto-pedant, I can't help it.
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 16:17, archived)
# its lack
keeps you awake at night.
admit it.
: p
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 16:20, archived)
# i dont really care for apostophes :)
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 16:24, archived)
# thats two nights sleep he's going to miss
no, three!
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 16:25, archived)
# Aaargh! *tears out hair*
I do at least have the decency to be ashamed of such pedantry...
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 16:59, archived)
# Theirs nothing wrong with pedantry
Its quite acceptable...
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 17:07, archived)
#
Maybe he's part of a social group working to get dragons accepted back into society and is suggesting we send one an instant message so we can see how nice and friendly they are.
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 16:24, archived)
# Be impressed that it can write at all
Dragons are not legendary for their penmanship.
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 16:27, archived)
#
Actually dragons tend to be excellent writers, and tales of their craft were told frequently, but for some reason they never took like the tales of slaughter and rampage.

"And lo, the dragon Gorm raised up his mighty pen Rexcaliburr, its diamond-encrusted nib glinting in the moonlight, and with careful craftsmanship and consumate skill, filled in The Times' Sudoku."
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 16:32, archived)
# I thought most dragons usually rely on secretaries to take notes
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 16:37, archived)
# unfortunately they carbonised them first
and then used them to take notes
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 16:49, archived)
# That's not a comma, it's a very high apostrophe.
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 16:32, archived)