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Old 10th Feb 2005, 09:41
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keithl
 
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Hd You make the point that you may well have said something after landing. That doesn't alter the pedantry level, it just means you've chosen a better way to make the point. It emphasises what I said in my first post in this thread, which was that pedantry, to me, means attention to detail and not letting errors go without correction. That is separate from being a bully, shouting, commenting at inappropriate times or undermining the junior member of the team. These are character defects and have nothing to do with pedantry as I understand it.

Several people here, including me, claim to be "agreeable pedants" and there's nothing difficult about that. Let's not attack "pedantry" when we really mean to attack bad behaviour.
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