Pedantic Dick.

While we were walking down the street the other day, my wife, who has had a total of 2 hours of sleep the night before, started complaining about her legs and how much they were hurting.

To drum up the appropriate sympathy for her, I will add that her legs were hurting because she had been on her feet for 36 hours at the hospital. There is no doubt that call sucks.

"These are my favorite pair of shoes." She said.

"This. This is my favorite pair of shoes. It's this." I replied.

For the next four blocks we talked about the grammar of that sentence.

It would be "This is my favorite pair" or "these are my favorite shoes", true, but I was arguing for a new application. I suggested that "These are my favorite pair of shoes" was acceptable if you pointed to your shoes as you said it. By pointing at a physical pair of shoes, I think you might be able to get away with saying "These" because you are clearly point to more than one item. I think it works for the other items that fall into a pair. Pants, panties, underwear, twins etc.

Anyone buying this? Or am I just a dick who picked on an overtired-do-gooder?

Geez, these pretzels are making me thirsty.

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