I heard someone use this word, and dident fully understand, somone used it as "One of my main convosation topics," i tryed google and a few other search engins yet none prevailed, help me out please? :)
2007-01-02 00:13:11 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Hehehe :D Shouldn't this go under Jokes & Riddles?
Oh come on, does no one get it?!
Oh alright! Firstly, this is obviously a clever guy here. Trying to catch you all out ;)
The common spelling is pedanticism
Pedanticism isn't actually a word
Its Pedantry!
Me, pedantic? No!
2007-01-02 00:14:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I can be somewhat pedantic at times, which is why I might have been tempted to point out to the person concerned that the word was "pedantry". Its origins lie in the Greek/Latin word for teaching (cf. pedagogue). A pedant used simply to mean teacher, as in Shakespeare"s "Love's Labour Lost", but nowadays has taken on negative connotations, indicating someone overly concerned with minutiae and detail and whose tone is perceived as condescending.
Having learned, moreover, that pedantry is one of the symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder, I must be wary of sounding too much like a pedant. I'll leave things there!
2007-01-02 08:43:05 · answer #2 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
being pedantic means to very picky and fussy. That you like things done a certain way. Maybe its an extension of this? perhaps theyve used this word to make up a new word. Thats why you havent found it anywhere.
2007-01-02 08:17:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
possibly pedanticism? Labouring a point, splitting hairs, a person who emphasizes trivial points of learning?
2007-01-02 08:18:13 · answer #4 · answered by Raymo 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you are a pedant, or are pedantic, you have an exaggerated attention to detail, and pull people up on it at every opportunity.
2007-01-02 08:20:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
It does mean that somebody who is prone to be finicky and hair-splitting
2007-01-02 08:29:05 · answer #6 · answered by CT 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Somebody who is prone to be finicky and hair-splitting.
2007-01-02 08:19:27 · answer #7 · answered by London Girl 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it means finiky love
like when people exaggerate things
2007-01-02 08:17:04 · answer #8 · answered by ME ME ME 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know
2007-01-03 04:32:03 · answer #9 · answered by montathra 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋