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The reality is that this is a common meaning of the word “soldier” and people who complain about it look like oversensitive pedantics.
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I just grow weary of the pedantics who have to reduce every simple statement into a professorial exercise in proving that for every rule there is an exception.
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The reality is that this is a common meaning of the word “soldier” and people who complain about it look like oversensitive pedantics.
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I think I can spare you readers most of my inevitable pedantics with the following animated picture of what's on my mind lately, shown here in six basic steps as a colourful summary click on image to see it animate:
Dialectal loss of PIE voiced aspirated stops via Para-MIE dialect merger? 2009
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I think I can spare you readers most of my inevitable pedantics with the following animated picture of what's on my mind lately, shown here in six basic steps as a colourful summary click on image to see it animate:
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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I appreciate the Pederist's pedantics often amuse me.
Circling the Pedicabs: Cycling and the New Frontier BikeSnobNYC 2009
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I love reading Galileo--he wrote for people, not pedantics, and thumbed his nose at the philosophers bent on fitting the physical world with "known" universal truths, the Gabe Kotter of Florence.
Archive 2008-08-01 doyle 2008
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October 19, 2008 at 4:00 am yep. here on ichc we can has both pet antics and pedantics lucky us
I DROPPED MAH COOKY - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I love reading Galileo--he wrote for people, not pedantics, and thumbed his nose at the philosophers bent on fitting the physical world with "known" universal truths, the Gabe Kotter of Florence.
Why Galileo matters doyle 2008
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There's nothing that drives me round the bend than yet another wishy-washy book about Etruscans that doesn't really reveal much and only skims the surface, often by cleverly burying itself in circumstantial pedantics.
uselessness commented on the word pedantics
noun. The annoying capers of one who enjoys correcting others on inconsequential things.
January 4, 2007