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Re: The importance of being pedant



Are there others who have received, as I have, a job review (performance
evaluation) from the boss that included the comment "Is a bit pedantic"?
My Funk & Wagnalls defines it as "ostentatiously learned", "narrowly
academic", and "excessively meticulous." Notwithstanding whatever damage
it did to my career, I always wore the title as a badge of honor.

Currently at the top of my "Ten Words to Rail Against" list is the strong
tendency of most physics authors to use the word "body" when referring to
an object. This always brings to my students' minds visions of a cadaver.

poj
Collin County College