Yes, I see what you mean. Someone on a message board called the United States a democracy. So I told them it was a Constitutional Republic, and they just ignored it and wrote it off as "splitting hairs."
Well, the way I think of it. All republics are democracies (representative democracies, instead of a pure one, but still). All Constitutional Republics are republics, and therefore democracies. So the US is a democracy, specifically, a constitutional democracy.
People often want to overlook fine distinctions, and sort of "gloss over" things. I don't understand that at all.
I wonder if being pedantic/meticulous might be a trait separate from type?
Sometimes it is a good idea to gloss over things, at other times, it is detrimental. So, we have people gloss over different things, and often see each other as pedantic.
Objection.
Semantics is the first rule in understanding.
The exact definition of what is what.
I agree. Semantics are needed for understanding. I don't like the word
just that they used.
Athenian200. (But that's more than four letters!)
I think spelling and grammar are important. (How on earth can you properly convey the nuance of your ideas if you have never mastered the communication medium you're trying to speak through?)
Then again, I've been twisted by working 17 years in one publishing industry after another.
Spelling, I think is more important than grammar, but I've rarely seen poor spelling lead to as much confusion as poorly defining the concepts being talked about, making logical contradictions, or assuming too much.
IMO, grammar is little more than Victorian normalcy used to suppress individual style.
I usually use passive voice. It is my voice. I will continue to use it.
However, online I tend to speak in a more informal fashion so as not to appear overly stuffy. It is also easier to convey tone by ignoring select grammar rules. I think that this--along with simple carelessness--would be the cause for most spelling and punctuation mistakes observed online, rather than a lack of knowledge.
It's my opinion that the extent to which you read would have a larger impact than P/J. My INTJ best friend has terrible grammar, and he almost never reads for pleasure, whereas I've read...definitely hundreds, maybe thousands of books in my life.
Well said.
I hadn't thought of being pedantic as being meticulous. I've seen it as more of an attention grabbing behavior or ostentatious. Since it seems to be a "show offy" behavior, it would probably be associated with "image awareness". So if not associated with type, could it be one of those enneagram 4 things?
In common usage, the show-offy part of being pedantic is lost because people who are called pedantic are rarely
trying to show off. I think, pedantry is concept that says more about the user of the concept, than the person it is used to describe.