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OP There is a word, which is I'm 99% sure of ancient Greek ancestry, which means something like 'pedantic' except that the person it is being used to describe is actually unknowingly ignorant about what he is being arrogantly pedantic about.
Example: I used the phrase 'leit motiv' in a letter-to-the-editor. He printed my letter but changed 'leit motiv' to 'leit motif'. 'motif' is in fact wrong, being French, whereas 'leit motiv' is clearly German, and 'motiv' is the correct spelling here.
I wrote the guy and told him a bit contemptuously that he had made a xxxxxxx, this being my lost word. Can soembody help me restore this useful word to my vocabulary?
Thank you
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted I Lost a Word - Help! Elgato 03/16/09 06:34 PM Re: anent bluestockingry zmjezhd 03/16/09 06:43 PM Re: I Lost a Word - Help! BranShea 03/16/09 11:07 PM open mouth, insert foot wofahulicodoc 03/17/09 12:57 AM Re: open mouth, insert foot BranShea 03/17/09 07:40 PM fare una gaffe wofahulicodoc 03/18/09 12:40 AM Re: fare una gaffe BranShea 03/18/09 10:18 AM sciolism? tsuwm 03/18/09 09:32 PM Re: sciolism? tsuwm 03/18/09 09:47 PM Re: malt hoard zmjezhd 03/18/09 10:12 PM Re: malt hoard tsuwm 03/18/09 10:33 PM Re: malt hoard Buffalo Shrdlu 03/18/09 10:51 PM Re: malt hoard tsuwm 03/18/09 11:33 PM Re: malt hoard twosleepy 03/19/09 02:03 AM Re: sciolism? Elgato 03/31/09 04:57 PM
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