pedants in English

noun
1
a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.
Donoghue's a true historian, whose period detail is exacting enough to please the most pedantic of pedants , while her style displays an intimacy with the past that's both unpretentious and modern.
synonyms:dogmatistpuristliteralistformalistdoctrinaireperfectionistquibblerhair-splittercasuistsophistnitpicker
noun

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1. Only pedants believe in the advantage of obfuscation.

2. We at Bardolatry are not academics, scholars, pedagogues, or pedants

3. True pedants add the proviso that an edge can not also be a node.

4. Pedants will also claim, with what I am sure is eye-popping insincerity and shameless disingenuousness, that their fight is only for 'clarity'.

5. The Churls was released in 1968, just about the time when pundits and pedants were starting to distinguish the words rock and rock 'n' roll