my final act of 2020 was fulfilling my lifelong dream of correcting the pronunciation of "pedant" in response to someone calling me a pedant so overall i would say the year was a net positive
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if they pronounce it correctly you can always go to "that would be pédant in the original French"
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Correct analysis
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Seeing how many steps you can push an etymological fallacy, like “It’s ‘ped-antic’, the same vowel as in ‘ped-agogical’, ‘encyclo-ped-ic’, ‘ped-iatrician’…” before someone calls your bluff, and then doubling down by showing them the Etymonline or Wiktionary page to “prove” it
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This is known as “chaos linguistics”—pronounced “cows”, as in the Greek
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