Pedant

Hello. My username on the simple 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 by clicking this link

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. It means "one who makes a show of teaching."

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".

Verb

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

Albert Einstein was smarter than me, but he never heard of Wikipedia.

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.

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.