<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> When I first saw it in school back in the "Gasp" 60's it was a polite way of saying "not trying to be an asshole" but, I have been described as that many times. Mike <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:linuxmaillists@charter.net">linuxmaillists@charter.net</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="mid200704230147.49015.linuxmaillists@charter.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Monday 23 April 2007, Mike Dwiggins wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">pendantic </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I was wondering what this word means. It means absolutely nothing because it is not a word. This was also the first time I had heard of pedantic. Found this with Google <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=238">http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=238</a> The non-word ‘pendantic’ is amazingly popular- over 21,000 ghits. And, as a substitute for ‘pedantic’ it has a delightfully self-undercutting character- anyone who worries that he’s being too pendantic about words can stop worrying! I’m less clear what- if any- semantic reinterpretation is taking place. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>