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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