Originally Posted By: AnnaStrophic

To be a true pedant, you need decades of knowledge to fall back on. And then you're still gonna be obnoxious.


An erudite former member of this board, one NicholasW, described himself in his profile as "a precisian". When I asked him why, he said that it was because "pedant" carried an implicit suggestion of one who was a stickler for details but who was often incorrect. Such a definition certainly did not fit NicholasW.

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