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OP What a useful word! It so aptly describes — well, I won't go there, or this will become a discussion of religion and politics!
At first I wondered if there weren't maybe too many syllables in the word (and that perhaps it could be "grammolatry," but then I realized that the base is the Greek *plural*, which gives us the -ata ending. Although in English we refer to "the letter of the law," it is thoughtless attention to the *letters* strung together in a sentence that this word describes: Letters without spirit.
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