My advisor just said I was "being a pedant" about one of the most important definitions in my thesis when I responded to his claim that it's straightforward by asking him to show me how to use his purported answer to do anything meaningful.
PEDANTRY IS LITERALLY OUR JOB 
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I think we're both constrained to writing causally, John!
It wasn't even so much that he was upset over wording or anything, we're still disagreeing about "correctly pose the problem" matters.
Ah well, I've become comfortable with the words "I don't understand, can you..."Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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