📰00On Pedantry. : languagehat.comlanguagehat.com·languagehat·27 days ago#ZMGatKdr#comment#x2026#comments#respond#x02026#visser+8 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagBack in 2020 I posted about the etymology of pedant; now I offer a very interesting review by Clare Bucknell (NYRB, May 14, 2026; archived) of On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S. Q. Visser.… Read more15s0Read later0Read More
📰00Charlatans & Bores | Clare BucknellThe New York Review of Books·Clare Bucknell·about 1 month ago#jRgbuBBj#collapse#fn#fnr#learning#pedantry#intellectual+5 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagThe profile of the pedant has changed surprisingly across time periods and cultures, but what’s constant is that nobody wants to be called one.15s0Read later0Read More
