joining multiple PDFs into one

Russ rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Nov 17 19:46:16 UTC 2011


Wikipedia says it used to mean teacher and that its common use today, is to mean someone overly concerned with academic language in explanations specifically in order to show off their knowledge of the subject matter.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedant#section_1

"Chris F.A. Johnson" <chris at cfajohnson.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Russ wrote:
>
>> In the words of Stephen Fry:
>>
>> If you're the kind of person who insists on this or that 'correct' use... abandon your pedantry as I did mine. Dive into the open flowing waters and leave the stagnant canals be... Above all, let there be pleasure!"
>
>     "Pedant is a word applied to those who value accuracy by those who don't."
>
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