BIND Woes A Second Thought

Mike Dwiggins mike at azdwiggins.com
Mon Apr 23 05:57:59 UTC 2007


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


linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> On Monday 23 April 2007, Mike Dwiggins wrote:
>   
>> pendantic
>>     
>
> 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
>
> http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=238
>
> 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.
>
>   

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