#pedant

literally: This word should be deleted. All too often, actions described as “literally” did not happen at all. As in, “He literally jumped out of his skin.” No, he did not. Though if he literally had, I’d suggest raising the element and proposing the piece for page one. Inserting “literally” willy-nilly reinforces the notion that breathless nitwits lurk within this newsroom. Eliminate on sight—the usage, not the nitwits. The nitwits are to be captured ↗

— Tom Rachman

#pedantic #humor

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#another #judgments #nothing #pedantic

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. ↗

— Henry Seidel Canby

#directing #diseases #dogmatism #intellects #lives

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen. ↗

— George Weinberg

#bully #cared #eighteen #father #him

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. ↗

— William Congreve

#education #enough #gentleman #little #pedantic

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#any #because #common #error #kind

The wages of pedantry is pain. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#pedantry #wages