Meaning of pedantics | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Pedantic details.
   plural, singular
2. Pedantry; the quality of being pedantic.
   plural, singular

Examples

“I deal with this type of thing every day and while I do not go into pedantics we must have scientific evidence gathered in each area to put the problem into perspective.”

“In Addis Zemen, in particular, the old hortatory pedantics of the need for progress, economic development and bureaucratic efficiency continued even after the change of regime. The only aspect of the pedantics that changed was the type of precedents mentioned in terms of development problems and their solutions.”

“He highlights the stylistic conceits and ambiguity that often turn quite ordinary statements into ponderous pedantics.”

“What we need to do here is not so much address the politics and the pedantics but make sure that—not just in this industry but also in other industries—the protocols put in place to protect our industries are in fact effective.”

““This isn’t the time to argue pedantics, Ace, come. Time and tide melt the snowman and all that.””

“It would be far better if the expression of the view of the Senate were arrived at without the necessity for pedantics—although I am not suggesting that pedantics are involved in this case—or the tagging on of things.”

“It has to be imaginative, but at the same time we have to do a certain amount of pedantics. What I might call pedantic research to answer the questions that our first witness has to have each year.”

“The lack of pretension, mentioned above, is present in the music, also. Pomposity and pedantics are absent from this score.”

“I considered launching a lecture in support of the thesis that helmets are not always an effective antidote to slingshots (witness Goliath), but it seemed likely that pedantics would only attract fire to my own unhelmeted skull; and my desire to resort to pedantics constituted a final proof: I was no hippie.”

“Scheme is a wonderful thing. Complex procedural ideas / Are expressed via simple strings. Its clear semantics, and lack of pedantics, / Help make programs run, run, RUN!”

“Procedural pedantics are not just emergency measures: they are what make a trial a trial, and the result is that the accused in the magistrates’ courts is not just prevented from challenging the court but is routinely prevented from participating effectively in his own trial.”

“This is not only pedantics, I quote Corinthian, Chapter 13, 8th Verse.”

“Around 1590 he used it in a hyphenated poem called ‘self-love’. I can’t seem to find it in Chaucer’s works although I did find ‘bagpipe’ and ‘laxative’ in the Canterbury Tales which was useful and also ‘mediation’ which was very useful. I tried the earlier works by Dante but still no luck. I still don’t know when ‘self’ appeared yet now it seems ubiquitous, especially in its hyphenated form, to explain almost anything anyone wants to explain. It’s probably a bit like the word ‘god’ something which doesn’t exist or have a singularity of meaning. Now I’m not usually Mister Picky (pedantics is a crime) I just wanted to clarify where this ‘self’ thing is supposed to actually exist and I can’t, so it doesn’t. It’s just a word which precedes a hyphen, after which you can use any other word you want.”

““Boundless Extensible Subterfuge,” Sinson-Rascalian said, “is brilliant and subtle. It is invisible and inevitable. It has the power to topple governments and yet leaves no trace of doing so. It can invert entire worlds and yet appear as no more than morning mist. It is boundless. It is extensible—” “What does that even mean?” Oscar cried. “—and it is the most elegant form of subterfuge.” “Right—stop— your pedantics are seriously getting in the way of specifics.””

“Stephan is still smiling, and I can’t tell if this is because he’s happy, or amused, but at least he doesn’t look annoyed or frustrated because of my pedantics over timing.”

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