For those of you who have had one too many years of formal education

[La Lioness Priyanka]

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do you ever utter sentences/phrases during conversations, and think "god, i sound so pedantic!"

it constantly happens to me. both my brothers usually just look at me, shake their heads, and say "NERD".

[Odin2005]

1. I was BORN being pedantic!

It's a typical Aspie trait!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. is it?

[hifiguy]

14. Yes, it is.

Odin and I are both Dx'd Aspies. We know. It comes with the territory.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Indubitably nt

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. lol

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. I get a kick sometimes from people who insist on "proper" pronunciations...

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... as opposed to what has become an accepted "populist" pronunciation
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"Vicchysoise" has flipflopped a coupla times. Originally "vish-ee-swahz",
it became "vish-ee-swah" and anyone using the original was considered
unknowledgeable -- "ignorant" of the alleged silent "s". Now, people that
might be considered fairly rigid in their grammatic rulings say "vish-ee-swahz"
again. I think in light of the almost-universally accepted "swah" version...
this might be seen as kind of an elitist or didactic "showing off".
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Same with "endive". Properly pronounced "ohn-DEEV", it has become pretty
universally pronounced as "EN-dive". "Ohn-DEEV" may be seen as elitist or
didactic now, even though it's "correct".
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There's a funny reference to this latter example in a current commercial --
one of those based on feeling like one is part of the financial elite now
because of all the extra money available due to some cellphone plan. A
woman is talking on a cellphone (possibly to a caterer???) and says
something like, "No... I'm sure the pronunciation is 'ohn-DEEV'."
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[geardaddy]

12. I love that commercial.

My g/f says "real-a-tor" but I never correct her even though it grates on me.

[MiddleFingerMom]

13. A buddy of mine in the Army cracked us up with the story of his father...

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... a pretty stern and authoritarian English professor who pronounced
the word 'misled' (as in "led astray&quot as "MY-zuld".
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This man was so generally intimidating that my friend doubted that
anyone would EVER have the huevos to let him know of the error.
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[geardaddy]

15. I'm going to have to start using that pronunciation.

[nolabear]

26. Beautiful! So how do you pronounce these?

Chauffeur
Homage
Humble

[struggle4progress]

6. Nope. Studied math. I learned long ago nobody wants to hear about any of it.

They don't want to know the definitions or the lemmas or the theorems or the corollaries

They don't want to hear about the proofs

They don't want to know why one proof is better than another

[gateley]

7. Well, since I had to look up pendantic, my answer is no. nt

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. lol

[hedgehog]

9. I find that occasionley I write a very erudite sentence with multiple clauses.

I am preserved from sounding too pendactic by my inability to spell!

[Chan790]

10. Yes.

Constantly. I also say things then realize nobody just understood what I said.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. happens to me all the time

[Kali]

16. huh?

[Adsos Letter]

17. I was a History major in college.

I have really cut back on conversations touching on the subject, since I appear to have developed a mania for setting things in context. Long before I've set the context to my pedantic satisfaction most of my friends'/family's eyes have glazed over...before I even get to the discussion at hand.

It's getting easier and easier to let the conversations flow on by.

[Moondog]

18. Sadly, yes. n/t

[dimbear]

19. Being pendantic is a good thing to do when you're just hanging around. n/t

[Lionel Mandrake]

20. Heh heh.

Concerning the word pendant, my online dictionary tells me:

ORIGIN Middle English (denoting an architectural decoration projecting downward): from Old French, literally ‘hanging,’ present participle of the verb pendre, from Latin pendere.

I could go on and on about the etymology, but I won't, lest I be accused of being a pedant, about which my online dictionary tells me:

ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from French pédant, from Italian pedante, perhaps from the first element of Latin paedagogus (see pedagogue ).

I will just mention that the Romans got this word from the Greeks. Cf "pediatrics", "encyclopedia", etc.

Oops, there I go again.

[dimbear]

21. 'Encyclopedia' has a lovely story behind it. From Greek: en kyklos pedia

"the children in a circle" like a kindergarten class.

[Lionel Mandrake]

23. The British spelling reflects the etymology.

"encyclopaedia" - "ae" was the usual Latin transliteration of alpha-iota.

Occasionally you will see a word like "paideia", which went directly from Greek to English, without a stopover in Latin.
This word means education or culture. The Greek word is derived from "paidos", child.

The classicist Werner Jaeger wrote three books titled Paideia. Die Formung des griechischen Menschen, 1933-1947 (English translation by Gilbert Highet: Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, 1939–1944).

Okay, I admit to being pedantic from time to time.

[dimbear]

24. Of course from that same Greek word kyklos, we get two of the three Ks in the KKK.

But then that might be getting a little, uh, what's the word I'm looking for?

[Lionel Mandrake]

28. The bad "P" word?

What you say is true, but not closely related to the discussion we have been having.

Not that I have been sticking close to any particular theme, either.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

27. lol.

[guitar man]

22. Only when I'm talking about audio recording

Most of the time I think I sound like the average hick from this neck of the woods out here in Oklahoma..... Until I start talking about what goes on on my recording studio. And do I ever like to talk about it.

My friends like to say "oh gawd, the professor is going to give another lecture"

[nolabear]

25. Pedantic is my middle name.

Really. nola Pedantic bear. Class of Snooty-five.