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pedantry/ˈped(ə)ntrē/ Pedantry is an excessive, boastful, or annoying focus on minor details, formal rules, and trivial points of learning.
by Mistletoe 1mo ago
pedantry/ˈped(ə)ntrē/
Pedantry is an excessive, boastful, or annoying focus on minor details, formal rules, and trivial points of learning.
- balazspeczeli 1mo agoIt's a bit funny that I can replace "pedantry" with "mathematics" here and it still makes sense: Mathematics is an excessive, boastful, or annoying focus on minor details, formal rules, and trivial points of learning.
- actionfromafar 1mo agoThe salad theory of Mathematics: Sufficiently advanced Pedantry is indistinguishable from Mathematics