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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
you think last week was "pedantic" and instead want us to opine on how the US might play an international dance with China? Plus we have to register for some geeked out journal?
Someone goofed on a typical 1970s "father" rile this way_ "My wife controls the unimportant decisions in our family, what we eat, where we vacation, how the kids get raised day to day. Me, I handle the more important things, like what US economic policy should be."
Maybe I don't know the def of pedantic?
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pe·dan·tic
pəˈdan(t)ik/
adjective
lets jump to the synonyms:
overscrupulous, scrupulous, precise, exact, perfectionist, punctilious, meticulous, fussy, fastidious, finicky; dogmatic, purist, literalist, literalistic, formalist;
casuistic, casuistical, sophistic, sophistical;
captious, hair-splitting, quibbling;
informalnitpicking, persnickety
