Thank you... and sorry for the rant but -- the word "pedantic" is incredibly overused of late on this site. According to some quick Google site: searches:

Thank you... and sorry for the rant but -- the word "pedantic" is incredibly overused of late on this site. According to some quick Google site: searches: WORD USE ON HACKER NEWS pedantic 3340 thoughtful 3750 f*** 9930 idiot 6180 Which seems quite frequent, but is obviously highly anecdotal. On the other hand, it appearing 1/3 as much as f* may indicate that this is at least a fairly civil community -- even if prone to pedantry. Edit: formatting.