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I am@partial to a bit of pedantry as some have noticed in the past, but this is world class by Mr Brisbane. From Pedantry Corner, Private Eye
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A quotation from Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ralphwaldoemerson #littleminds #clergy #consistency #details #focus #inconsistency #littlepeople #littlethings #nitpicking #obsession #organization #particular #pedantry #philosopher #politician #trivialities

A quotation from Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ralphwaldoemerson #littleminds #clergy #consistency #details #focus #inconsistency #littlepeople #littlethings #nitpicking #obsession #organization #particular #pedantry #philosopher #politician #trivialities

A quotation from Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ralphwaldoemerson #littleminds #clergy #consistency #details #focus #inconsistency #littlepeople #littlethings #nitpicking #obsession #organization #particular #pedantry #philosopher #politician #trivialities

A quotation from Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ralphwaldoemerson #littleminds #clergy #consistency #details #focus #inconsistency #littlepeople #littlethings #nitpicking #obsession #organization #particular #pedantry #philosopher #politician #trivialities

In an effort to post something cheerful and non-screechy today ... here's my new favorite Christmas-themed video, via my son (who knows me too well).

#godrestyemerry #carol #punctuation #pedantry

https://youtu.be/sxfxy-3dGz0?si=W5BuGPbYxsI95ri3

Hi #pedants I'm seeing 'normalcy' online where I would have used 'normality'. Is this because the writer is American or trained in US English or just because I'm old? Is normalcy the new normality now?
#pedantry #English

Hi #pedants I'm seeing 'normalcy' online where I would have used 'normality'. Is this because the writer is American or trained in US English or just because I'm old? Is normalcy the new normality now?
#pedantry #English

Hi #pedants I'm seeing 'normalcy' online where I would have used 'normality'. Is this because the writer is American or trained in US English or just because I'm old? Is normalcy the new normality now?
#pedantry #English

Hi #pedants I'm seeing 'normalcy' online where I would have used 'normality'. Is this because the writer is American or trained in US English or just because I'm old? Is normalcy the new normality now?
#pedantry #English

Hi #pedants I'm seeing 'normalcy' online where I would have used 'normality'. Is this because the writer is American or trained in US English or just because I'm old? Is normalcy the new normality now?
#pedantry #English

@Photo55 You're right, but it probably won't surprise you that I try to vacuum the carpet and websearch the internet. As the unofficial motto of so many scientific trades goes: "you don't have to be autistic to work here, but it helps". 🤪

And yet I use eponymous words like "quisling" and "boycot" (and indeed I admire the Norwegians and the Irish for consigning those of whom they disapproved so enduringly to villainy), so I'm sure there will be commercially derived words that I use - just as you describe - but I am ignorant of their etymology.

#pedantry #pedantic #autism #neurodivergent #neuroatypical #talkingVeryPreciselyAboutVeryPreciseThings #Feynman #Dawkins #language #linguistics #STEM #psychology #memetics #memes #neuroLinguisticProgramming #NLP #advertising #propaganda #cambridgeAnalytica #poetry #love #language #music #art

A quotation from Molière

CLITANDRE: A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.
 
[Un sot savant est sot plus qu’un sot ignorant.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Les Femmes Savantes [The Learned Ladies], Act 4, sc. 3 (1692) [tr. Van Laun (1876)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/moliere/42174/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #pedantry #dolt #education #folly #fool #ignorance #learning #sophomore

A quotation from Molière

CLITANDRE: A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.
 
[Un sot savant est sot plus qu’un sot ignorant.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Les Femmes Savantes [The Learned Ladies], Act 4, sc. 3 (1692) [tr. Van Laun (1876)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/moliere/42174/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #pedantry #dolt #education #folly #fool #ignorance #learning #sophomore

A quotation from Molière

CLITANDRE: A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.
 
[Un sot savant est sot plus qu’un sot ignorant.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Les Femmes Savantes [The Learned Ladies], Act 4, sc. 3 (1692) [tr. Van Laun (1876)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/moliere/42174/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #pedantry #dolt #education #folly #fool #ignorance #learning #sophomore

A quotation from Molière

CLITANDRE: A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.
 
[Un sot savant est sot plus qu’un sot ignorant.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Les Femmes Savantes [The Learned Ladies], Act 4, sc. 3 (1692) [tr. Van Laun (1876)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/moliere/42174/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #pedantry #dolt #education #folly #fool #ignorance #learning #sophomore

A quotation from Molière

CLITANDRE: A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.
 
[Un sot savant est sot plus qu’un sot ignorant.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Les Femmes Savantes [The Learned Ladies], Act 4, sc. 3 (1692) [tr. Van Laun (1876)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/moliere/42174/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #pedantry #dolt #education #folly #fool #ignorance #learning #sophomore

A quotation from C. C. Colton

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 48 (1820)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #bureaucracy #commonsense #correctness #error #legalism #pedantry #procedure #rules

And yes, of course, the historical reference regarding the Jonestown self-massacre is actually about Flavor Aid and not Kool-Aid.
#clarification #pedantry

I'm seeing fungus/mycelium-based materials in the news again as potentially green alternatives and it's time to remind people that "mushrooms build large underground networks of mycelium" is wrong. Correct* is "the large underground networks of mycelium occasionally grow some mushrooms". Writing the first is like if we couldn't usually see apple trees and wrote that "apples grow large wooden support structures".

#fungus #scienceWriting #mushrooms #pedantry

*I'm being hyperbolic here

Evangelical FB friend posted this. I don't want to be an asshole to her, so... hi, fam.

#typo #punctuation #pedantry #religion #christianity #polytheism #accidental

This old graph from @robdrummond should be displayed on all office doors of all descriptive linguists. Most of us have gone through the whole process, but there is light on the right of the X axis!!! @linguisticmemes @linguistics #Linguistics #Descriptive #Pedantry