Is a pedant someone who immediately jumps in to correct one, be it grammar, syntax, information, often misunderstanding or misinterpreting what is said, be that jocular, speculative, informative?
For an example, in France, on being told the house was exactly a mile from the road, jumped in with ‘kilometre’ - no, mile, this is an English car : another was when in an accident, asked what happened, told driver was hurled through the window - ‘windscreen’ - no, window - this particular information adjustment happened a few times.
A particularly galling example, in answer to close questioning, responded with, “I don‘t know nuffink” to be assured that ‘ if you don’t know nothing you must know something’ when it should have been obvious to this particular person I was closing down questioning?
I’m not thinking of tiresome people who swear black is white.
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