Karen said to Jessica, "He wanted me to do this thing in bed, and just kept going on about how I should move and position myself just right. He's so pedantric."
by G-Ruddy February 7, 2024
Get the pedantric mug.Grammatical (or grammar) pedantry syndrome is an illness or a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder where someone has a compulsive desire to correct any grammatical errors one has made and is obsessed with taking this peculiar, constant, and vexatious (from the target's perspective) action.
"Me and mark ate cookies!"
"You mean, 'Mark and I ate cookies!'"
"Stop it!"
"Sorry, I have Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome."
"You mean, 'Mark and I ate cookies!'"
"Stop it!"
"Sorry, I have Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome."
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"If your statement was never supposed to be read as anything more than a synonym for 'Russia is not good and not our friend' then sorry for being comparably pedantic, I guess.
by JormanThoad February 24, 2017
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by Carter Ball January 11, 2008
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by Fluid February 5, 2004
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I love it when you dominate our conversations through critiquing my word usage and completely avoiding the central arguments, you pedantic fuck.
by Left of write February 15, 2008
Get the pedantic mug.Pedanticism is a practised by people so focused on errors that they sometimes end up missing the errors of their own.
Pendanticism is related to perfectionism in the fashion that the individual practicing this form of perfectionism always are experiencing the need to correct 'faults' until absolute 'perfection'.
If this person spots an error, they have to correct it, even if it would be deemed unneccessary by other individuals.
Sometimes the error they feel the urge to correct the errors that are not even there. This often leads to conflicts, where a more immature person might start peckering even further about inexistant errors.
Pendanticism is related to perfectionism in the fashion that the individual practicing this form of perfectionism always are experiencing the need to correct 'faults' until absolute 'perfection'.
If this person spots an error, they have to correct it, even if it would be deemed unneccessary by other individuals.
Sometimes the error they feel the urge to correct the errors that are not even there. This often leads to conflicts, where a more immature person might start peckering even further about inexistant errors.
Pedanticist:
OMG, nub u liek cnat spell! Taht word isnt spelld liek that!!
Victim for unmotivated correction:
Before you start peckering me with your inexistant errors, perhaps you should take a look at your own pedanticist-behaviours.
There are definitive downsides of pedanticism, as you can see.
OMG, nub u liek cnat spell! Taht word isnt spelld liek that!!
Victim for unmotivated correction:
Before you start peckering me with your inexistant errors, perhaps you should take a look at your own pedanticist-behaviours.
There are definitive downsides of pedanticism, as you can see.
by PlentyofLingon May 30, 2009
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