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Pedantry is the habit of caring too much about small rules, small facts, or the 'right' way to say a thing, and using that to correct other people. The person is a ; pedantry is the habit. It is not the same as being careful. A careful person wants the work to be good. A wants to catch you. They may stop a talk to fix one tiny word, or get angry about a , and they often sound proud of it. People use this word to complain. It is a little formal, and it is never a compliment. Teachers, editors, and anyone who loves rules get accused of it — sometimes fairly, sometimes just because someone did not like being corrected. Though actually, caring about the truth is not pedantry. Showing off with tiny points, and making other people feel small, is.
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pedantrynoun/ˈpɛd.ən.tɹi/
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An excessive attention to detail or rules.
- They had heard people call things pedantic, which they did not think were so ; for instance, a boy had once said that Harry himself was a pedant, for talking of the siege of Syracuse, and of the machines used there, because the boy knew nothing about them, and disliked reading. "Then you perceive," said his mother, "that the meaning of the word varies with the different degrees of knowledge of those who use it. I remember when it was thought pedantic for a woman to talk of some books, which are now the subject of common conversation. Sometimes old-fashioned learning, and sometimes useless learning, is called pedantry; and it is generally thought pedantic to produce any kind of learning that is so unusual, that it is not likely that the company is acquainted with it, or can be pleased by it. In short, pedantry may be said to be an ill-timed parade of knowledge."
- Another point on which Smart insists is the distinction between serf and surf […] A distinction can of course be made, and without much difficulty, by those who think of it, and is made by those who have formed a habit of doing so; but the distinction is so rarely made as to amount almost to pedantry […]
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An excessive attention to detail or rules.
- I don’t want to listen to your pedantries anymore.
- [T]he southern court of the ballium had become a flower-garden, with quaint terraces, statues, knots of flowers, clipped yews and hollies, and all the pedantries of the topiarian art.
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An overly ambitious display of learning.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。