User:Pedant
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[edit] Favorite quote from the wikipedia
""Millard Fillmore ate a rutabaga and badger muffaletta" (who said it?)
[edit] How editing can be misused
"We're" ... "followers of a murderous ideology that despises freedom and crushes all dissent, and has territorial ambitions and pursues totalitarian aims." ... "We will never back down, we will never give in and we will never accept anything less than complete victory." ... "We will defeat the" ... "hope of freedom across the world." President George W. Bush July 4, 2006
(by malicious editing, an entirely different message is created from an apparently innocuous speech)
[edit] Pedant
Hello. My username on Wikipedia is Pedant. I use the same name on all the wikimedia projects. If you would like to ask me a question or tell me something, leave me a message on my talk page rather than this page.
This page is copied from my page at the Simple English Wikipedia, it's my first attempt at "Simple English"
[edit] About my name
"Pedant" does not mean any kind of ant. A "pedant" is a person who thinks that even very small details are important. The word "pedant" comes from a much older word that means "someone that teaches", so pedant can mean "teacher" too.
[edit] What the dictionary says about "pedant"
Pedantic is a word used to describe the way a pedant is or the way that a pedant behaves. It can also describe things that are done in the same way that a pedant would do that thing.
The English language Wiktionary is at [1]. The "Wiktionary" is an online dictionary. (A dictionary is a "book or list of words" and tells what words mean.) The Wiktionary says that a pedant is "a person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning."
[edit] Synonym
The Wiktionary says that the word "pedantic" is a synonym for "fussy". A synonym is a word that has the same meaning as another word, or, it can mean a word that has a meaning that is almost the same.
[edit] Adjective
The Wiktionary says that "fussy" is an adjective that relates to the word 'fuss'. An adjective is a word that describes another word. (So a pedant can also be called a "fussy person" or a "person that is fussy".)
[edit] Noun and Verb
The Wiktionary also says that fuss is both a noun and a verb. Some English words have more than one meaning or are used in more than one way.
[edit] Noun
A noun describes a thing, or person or place. As a noun, a fuss is "too much activity or chatting about something".
[edit] Verb
As a verb, "fuss means to be very worried or excited about something".
[edit] What Albert Einstein says
Albert Einstein said that "God is in the details". Most people don't say that he was fussy. I copied Albert Einstein's words onto my page because I like some of the things he said.
[edit] What I say
Maybe I have picked a good word for my user name, because I like to teach and I like to say things that are really true and not just almost true -- I am not sure if I am 'fussy', but I am very excited about Wikipedia.
[edit] My huge gallery of Wikiawards
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The Welcomer's Barnstar | |
| Awarded theBarnstar to Pedant for his great efforts in welcoming.--Edtalk c E 01:41, 30 August 2006 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence | |
| For going above and beyond the call of AMA Duty! Æon Insanity Now!EA! 19:42, 15 September 2006 (UTC) |
[edit] Mexican American War
In reference to your discussion remarks....You have got to be kidding...the Bear Flag revolt, 30 or so belligerent immigrants , not complying with the Mexican government, claiming to take posession of something that was not theirs to begin with, then having the audacity to claim they had a President!!! and you, making the bizarre, esoteric insinuation that the so called "republic" still somehow exists as a sovereign state! Give me a break!!! DonDeigo 22:23, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
