#pedantic

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#effect #fault #gives #hardly #him

literally: This word should be deleted. All too often, actions described as “literally” did not happen at all. As in, “He literally jumped out of his skin.” No, he did not. Though if he literally had, I’d suggest raising the element and proposing the piece for page one. Inserting “literally” willy-nilly reinforces the notion that breathless nitwits lurk within this newsroom. Eliminate on sight—the usage, not the nitwits. The nitwits are to be captured ↗

— Tom Rachman

#pedantic #humor

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#another #judgments #nothing #pedantic

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. ↗

— William Congreve

#education #enough #gentleman #little #pedantic

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#designer #exactness #experience #good #logic