the-burnished-hart:Today’s Magic: The Gathering GRE® Word is… Pedantpedant (noun) PED-int A
the-burnished-hart:Today’s Magic: The Gathering GRE® Word is… Pedantpedant (noun) PED-int Also pedantic (adj)Definition: Person who pays excessive attention to book learning and rules, or who uses his or her learning to show offUsage: I hate when pedants interrupt you to correct your grammar, especially if what you’re saying is important, and, in my opinion, almost anything is more important than pedantic quibbles over whether it’s okay to end a sentence with a preposition.Related Words: Didactic means “intended to instruct; teaching, or teaching a moral lesson.” This is a perfectly positive quality for a teacher, but could be annoying coming from a peer. Fastidious means “excessively particular, hard to please.”More Info: “Ped” means “child,” as in pediatrician. A pedant was once a schoolmaster; now it’s someone who acts like a schoolmaster in inappropriate situations.Hey look it’s me!I put “professional pedant” in my about because I’m so pedantic but… my job actually does fill the original definition of pedant. -- source link
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