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From the 18th century onwards, there was the notion of "proper" English, an idea that expressed itself in pedantry about grammar and pronunciation but that was always about power and control.
Not only is The Ladykillers one of Britain's best-loved films, but the cast of the 1955 production – Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom and Danny Green – did include one or two actors that modern film programmes like to wrongly refer to as "legends", even if (pedantry aside) you know what they mean.
That point of pedantry aside, once you get past its unpleasant, stewed vegetable aroma, this is, for just 66p a bottle, not a bad little pilsner.
He once called a fellow director on Christmas Day to complain about a missing comma in a memo.But if his perfectionism bordered on pedantry , Warburg continued to inspire great loyalty.
Too many mediocre writers, it often seems to me, develop an inordinate pedantry about usage and style because they haven't got much else to say.The CMOS editors also have a laudable patience for the trivial:Q.
This latter, a concept originally intended to guarantee the rights of newly emancipated slaves, was used to protect the rights of private property from interference by the state.Brandeis was not the first American jurist to challenge the exploitation of legal pedantry in the service of reactionary politics.
More often than not in the long discussions at COREPER, the committee of permanent representatives, the British have been outnumbered 26:1.Pierre Vimont, one of the most senior EEAS officials, has expressed his frustration at such pedantry.
Returning the compliment, Comte de Vergennes, the French foreign minister, described Adams as having an "inflexibility, a pedantry , an arrogance and a conceit that renders him incapable of dealing with political subjects".However, Adams did better with the Dutch.
Until 1991, when liberalisation began, Indian businesses that had not been nationalised were family affairs that survived in a world of micromanagement and official targets the "licence raj", a surreal mix of Soviet stupidity, British pedantry and Indian improvisation.
Between mortal pedantry and wet indulgence, is there safe ground?Intention has a lot to do with it.
Use it to guard against guile or follow it to shape public perceptions and government policies armed only with a catchy title, patchy data and an agenda.First, banish pedantry and make life easier for yourself by using whatever figures are to hand, whether they are old, drawn from small or biased samples, or mixed and matched from wildly differing sources.
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