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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
[158090; < Italian pedante teacher, pedant; apparently akin to pedagogue; see -ant]
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To: Fierce Allegiance; Jack Deth; K4Harty; miskie; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; MoochPooch; NeoCaveman; ...
To: SoothingDave
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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!)
To: SoothingDave
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02/21/2012 4:55:21 AM PST
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hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
To: SoothingDave
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posted on
02/21/2012 4:56:22 AM PST
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hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
To: SoothingDave; xsmommy; tioga
Got a problem with the answer today. My pendan’t write on de computer screen.
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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!)
To: hobbes1
I thought it was an amusing back formation from “pedantic,” but it is an actual word.
To: SoothingDave
Don’t you get called this word at least twice a week?
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posted on
02/21/2012 5:00:12 AM PST
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(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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posted on
02/21/2012 5:06:11 AM PST
by
deoetdoctrinae
(Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons)
To: SoothingDave
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posted on
02/21/2012 5:09:37 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: SoothingDave
your SELF AWARENESS, as demonstrated by your word choice today, is laudable ; )
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posted on
02/21/2012 5:22:39 AM PST
by
xsmommy
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!!!
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posted on
02/21/2012 5:24:51 AM PST
by
xsmommy
To: SoothingDave
Pedant
Didn’t they have one of those in “Honey, I Shrunk The Kids”?
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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.)
To: SoothingDave
We Need a leader,
Not a self-righteous pedant who claims he once taught Constitutional Law..
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.
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posted on
02/21/2012 5:38:50 AM PST
by
WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
(Congress touched me inappropriately, they should be put on administrative leave immediately)
To: xsmommy
And if his post didn’t demonstrate the word, I don’t know what will. ROR!
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posted on
02/21/2012 5:47:40 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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.
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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.)
To: SoothingDave
Good morning and happy Mardi Gras to the chief pedant.
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posted on
02/21/2012 5:48:47 AM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(SMOD 2012)
To: SoothingDave
Ponder the pedant pretender pRes_ _ent presumptuously
pretending preposterous putative power.
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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)
To: SoothingDave
Your Mom’s sister who doesn’t have a car.
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posted on
02/21/2012 6:08:12 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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