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Pedantic in this case means dull and unimaginative. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pedantic https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pedantic Ev
by RC_ITR 4y ago
Pedantic in this case means dull and unimaginative.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pedantic https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pedantic
Everyone else’s understanding of process seems fine.
- HillRat 4y ago"Pedantic" is probably not the most felicitous term they could have used; they clearly meant something more like "abstruse," given their obvious admiration for the film.
- bee_rider 4y agoLater the interviewer describes his own questions as pedantic. Accusations of pedantry are thrown around so often, (sometimes incorrectly) that perhaps it is gaining a new less derogatory meaning, something like “precise.”
- bee_rider 4y agoI’ve gotten multiple contradictory definitions of “process film” here, I think yamtaddle’s is most correct though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34177435 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34177435