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twicehappy -> RE: FOR HELP POST HERE (7/13/2006 9:17:29 AM)
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ORIGINAL: desertdancer
Please help, there is a spider in the light in my hallway right before my bathroom, the thing is huge, and I know it's in the light and thus can't get me, but I'm horrified of it, to the point then I'm trapped in my bedroom, and everytime I go out into the hall way, my eyes fill with stars, my pulse races and I feel like Im going to pass out, and I have to pee, now please stop your laughing and help me? My vision still hasnt cleared from my last attempt out there, truly my eyes are filled with this sparkling swirling light and I feel like Im gonna die...
Lol, send me your address i catch and remove spiders from house for Jewel all the time, she really hates them. I think they are kind of cute and useful too.
Pendant or pendantic;
A pedant is a person who overrates or overuses book learning or pure technical knowledge. Such a person values simple knowledge (in the form of often obscure facts and rules) over common sense and more general knowledge.
Some pedants are ostentatious in their pedantry, as if displaying their knowledge, and pointing out the errors of others, gives them great pleasure. Such pedants would be more likely to expound at length on subjects, taking every opportunity to demonstrate the breadth of their knowledge.
Some pedants are simply nit-pickers, people who are annoyed by what they see as egregious errors. They take no pleasure in correcting your mistakes, yet they cannot let such mistakes go uncorrected. Such pedants will correct your pronunciation in conversation, and the bolder (or less socially adept) pedant might even correct your use of grammar while you converse with another person.
The on-line community has spawned a whole new breed of pedants, allowing free platform for ostentatious pedants to hold forth, and ample opportunity for the nit-pickers to comb for trivial errors that seek correction; the term Grammar Nazi is a popular appellation for such individuals.
Being called a pedant, or pedantic, is considered insulting. People who wish to make a correction often preface it with "not wishing to be pedantic, but ..." or "without being a pedant, ..." in order to indicate that the correction is made in good spirit and implies no criticism.
Pedantry can come about as the overzealous application of intellectual rigour, but equally can just be an annoying habit brought on by lack of social interaction
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