As opposed to our local necessary ones.
As I’ve always pictured you.
i have a new favorite comic!
Jenny Lawson wrote Furiously Happy, my favorite humor book on anxiety and depression. One of her printings accidentaly got combined with George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones. She reads some of the passages on her blog.
https://thebloggess.com/2019/01/10/ive-taken-on-a-writing-partner-and-youll-never-guess-who-it-is/
I think “chomping at the bit” makes sense, ff you’re trying to “get the bit between your teeth.”
They’re literally the same word. Same meaning, almost identical pronunciation. It’s like saying it’s wrong to call the Book of Winchester “the Doomsday Book” because 12th century literature refers to it as “the Domesday Book” when the only difference is that the former is using Modern English spelling and the latter is using Middle English.
It’s archaism for archaism’s sake.
Well, I shall continue my chomping with a clear mind.
“That took a turn… I think George R. R. Martin just killed my cat”
And this is why you are not an UNnecessary pedant.
What, because I’m pedantic about other people’s pedantry?
Value added.
“Value-added pedantry” is a term I do not believe I have ever heard before.
I think we could use some homeopathic pedantry around here.
You want me to dilute the substance of my complaints with more ephemera?
Sure!
I can’t see why you’d want that, but I can oblige.
Oh wait . . .
Other people’s incorrect pedantry. Things like if someone says broccoli was only invented recently, you can swoop in and point out the ancient Romans ate it.
That is a definite value add.