User:Pedant

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This is an ant, but not a pedant

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Motto of the day

<touch>Today's motto...
→ A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Nominate one today!</touch> (Sorry - couldn't help myself)

Favorite quote from the wikipedia

""Millard Fillmore ate a rutabaga and badger muffaletta" (who said it?)

This editor is a Yeoman, and is entitled to display this Yeoman Editor Badge

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)

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"

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.

What the dictionary says about "pedant"

This picture has nothing to do with me, but I have always liked it.

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."

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.

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".)

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.

Noun

A noun describes a thing, or person or place. As a noun, a fuss is "too much activity or chatting about something".

Albert Einstein said "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

Verb

As a verb, "fuss means to be very worried or excited about something".

What Albert Einstein says

Mies van der Rohe said that "God is in the details". I copied Albert Einstein's words onto my page because I like some of the things he said.

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.

My huge gallery of Wikiawards

The Welcomer's Barnstar Awarded theBarnstar to Pedant for his great efforts in welcoming.--Edtalk c E 01:41, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For going above and beyond the call of AMA Duty! Æon Insanity Now!EA! 19:42, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

		The MOTD Barnstar
		The MOTD Barnstar is awarded to Pedant for his invaluable contribution to our project, which was experiencing a period of extreme scarcity. Thank you from Motto of the day. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:56, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Additional note: Hoping that you feel comfortable with us, we hope and desire that you will want to continue contributing to our/your project. I personally think that if many of us contribute, then about ten minutes per week, by reviewing the existing nominations, and eventually adding new nominations, should be more than enough to get the project going! Once again, thank you from your Motto of the day. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:56, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Devi (little princess), a 30-year-old Asian Elephant raised in captivity at the San Diego Zoo exhibiting "rocking behavior", a rhythmic and repetitive swaying which is unreported in free ranging wild elephants. Thought to be symptomatic of stress disorders, and probably made worse by a barren environment, rocking behavior may be a precursor to aggressive behavior in captive elephants.