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Word for the Day, Tuesday February 21, 2012

Posted on 02/21/2012 4:51:36 AM PST by SoothingDave

Word For The Day, Tuesday, February 21, 2012



In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

pedant [ped-nt]

-n

1. a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
2. a person who overemphasizes rules or minor details.
3. a person who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense.
4. Obsolete a schoolmaster

[1580–90; < Italian pedante teacher, pedant; apparently akin to pedagogue; see -ant]


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1 posted on 02/21/2012 4:51:39 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: Fierce Allegiance; Jack Deth; K4Harty; miskie; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; MoochPooch; NeoCaveman; ...

Come and get it.


2 posted on 02/21/2012 4:52:29 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

Ugh. Coffee.


3 posted on 02/21/2012 4:55:21 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: SoothingDave

Fat Tuesday bayyyyby


4 posted on 02/21/2012 4:55:21 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: SoothingDave

Ha Lmao at the word


5 posted on 02/21/2012 4:56:22 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: SoothingDave; xsmommy; tioga

Got a problem with the answer today. My pendan’t write on de computer screen.


6 posted on 02/21/2012 4:56:36 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: hobbes1

I thought it was an amusing back formation from “pedantic,” but it is an actual word.


7 posted on 02/21/2012 4:58:01 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

Don’t you get called this word at least twice a week?


8 posted on 02/21/2012 5:00:12 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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9 posted on 02/21/2012 5:06:11 AM PST by deoetdoctrinae (Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons)
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To: SoothingDave
Michael Barone, who is not a pedant, says Patience, Grasshopper.
10 posted on 02/21/2012 5:09:37 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: SoothingDave

your SELF AWARENESS, as demonstrated by your word choice today, is laudable ; )


11 posted on 02/21/2012 5:22:39 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave; secret garden

twarn’t never no BACK FORMATION, i knew it was a word when i started calling you this years ago! your pic is next to this word in my online dictionary!!!


12 posted on 02/21/2012 5:24:51 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

Pedant

Didn’t they have one of those in “Honey, I Shrunk The Kids”?


13 posted on 02/21/2012 5:27:22 AM PST by NicknamedBob (If "everybody's different" then two of them have to be the same. It's the only way to be different.)
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To: SoothingDave

We Need a leader,

Not a self-righteous pedant who claims he once taught Constitutional Law..


14 posted on 02/21/2012 5:27:44 AM PST by left that other site
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To: xsmommy; SoothingDave

Good morning - I’m getting that gardening itch....I have five little eggs cartons with seeds started and I can smell the dirt when I walk by them.....I think as my eyesight goes my sense of smell is getting stronger.


15 posted on 02/21/2012 5:38:50 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Congress touched me inappropriately, they should be put on administrative leave immediately)
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To: xsmommy

And if his post didn’t demonstrate the word, I don’t know what will. ROR!


16 posted on 02/21/2012 5:47:40 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: SoothingDave

Pedant

After four years of studying the Latin language I know that “ped” probably has something to do with feet or stepping on something or other. That being all I learned lettuce move on here:

Pedant means to step on an ant, ped ant means dead ant. Take that tough guy! Able to lift several times your own weight? Try lifting a size 13 gum boot with me in it, Pedant.


17 posted on 02/21/2012 5:48:47 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: SoothingDave

Good morning and happy Mardi Gras to the chief pedant.


18 posted on 02/21/2012 5:48:47 AM PST by NeoCaveman (SMOD 2012)
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To: SoothingDave
Ponder the pedant pretender pRes_ _ent presumptuously
pretending preposterous putative power.


19 posted on 02/21/2012 6:02:15 AM PST by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: SoothingDave

Your Mom’s sister who doesn’t have a car.


20 posted on 02/21/2012 6:08:12 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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