Flap limiting speed is X; fly at X+1 knot with flaps down and your Captain might wallop you with a smelly old piece of cod even though no damage was done...It may be semantics, but correct definitions matter.
Now to your points!
pedant
Noun
a person who is concerned chiefly with insignificant detail or who relies too much on academic learning
I have never understood why folks drift off thread and resort to personal attacks either with humour or sarcasm when they get a response they do not like.
Not sure what Captains you fly with but in my 19 years as a Captain I have never carried a "smelly old piece of cod" nor attacked my First Officer.
Perhaps you could enlighten us all to the airline you fly for, assuming you do, so we might all avoid it lest we get attacked by a fish weilding Captain.
semantics
Noun
the branch of linguistics that deals with the study of meaning
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The comment was made in response to
your statement not the original question.
KW