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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Essay (1841), "Self-Reliance," Essays: First Series, No. 2 | WIST Quotations

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. This thought continues here. This essay was inspired by his reading of Walter Savage Landor in 1833, with passages pulled from his lecture "Individualism," last in his course on "The Philosophy of History"…

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David McFarlane Feb 2

@Findarato Sorry if I am taking this more seriously than you intended: Yes, it is a contraction, and needs an apostrophe, thus -- "let's go". And it does indeed expand to "let us go". #pedantry

MidgePhoto Jan 30

@Remittancegirl
(Strictly, since it is derived from the geometry set sort of compasses rather than the geography sort, and shortened from encompasses, the trouble is with those whose moral compass does not exclude anything. Too much rather than nothing.

But pointers to behaviour, I agree.)
#pedantry

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🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦Jan 24

@dkmcf @galacticstone You forgot to tag your post with #pedantry.

mtp Jan 21

RFC: When using them as a modal verb, prefer:

* "may" to express permission

* "might" to express possibility (subjunctive mood)

#Pedantry

PhilWill Jan 16

Enjoying the audio book of John Birmingham's "zero day code", narrator is quite good but I am such a pedant that I cant help but yell at my phone when he mispronounces Wauchope...
I mean, I understand that obscure and non-phonetic place names may not be familiar or obvious, but a quick search brings up a fairly decent pronunciation
#pedantry #narration
#audiobook #currentlyreading #JohnBirmingham

Tony Meredith Jan 14

I'm shocked.
The hashtag #kleptocrats is really under-used, as against #oligarchs
See also #pedantry or indeed accuracy.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/kleptocrat

kleptocrat

1. a leader who makes himself or herself rich and powerful by stealing from the…

Sap Jan 12

"As someone who has spent a professional lifetime working in fields in which a highly curated neuroatypicality has passed itself off as academic rigour, I have become acutely sensitive to the line between having a commitment and having a condition"
Letters to the Editor, TLS 6396
#pedantry

Scooter

Jan 6

Allow me some #pedantry .

There is no such phrase as "runs the gambit". It's "gamut". Yes, I know you don't know what a "gamut" is, but that's the actual correct word, so use it. Stop saying "runs the gambit", particularly if you are on TV or in a printed work or something where there should be editors around who know better.

First offense: I will take a cardboard tube from inside a roll of paper towels and bop you on the head with it, several times.

#LearnVocabulary #English #MFDoYouSpeakIt

mtp Dec 31

Happy new year from the one appliance that represents time properly:

#pedantry