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@xxxxxxxxxxx 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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