Dysken said:
A strongly pejorative term for someone who knows and shares much useless or esoteric knowledge. Example: a poster on the Paradox history threads you don't like.
(One you do like is just "well-read" or "knowledgeable"
)
Also, someone who covers a lack of true understanding by learning such minutiae and correcting others' mistakes. Example: People who use needless Latin phrases; people who use the word "whom" with awkward correctness; people who know what pedant means and correct its misuse; people who take 15 minutes to type a post only to see a much shorter one address the point succinctly first.
Someone obsessed with completing something in a correct order/way
"has OCD" or "is an obsessive" or "is a neurotic"
heu cetera.
For example lining up your shoes in the order of Colour,usage,size and price. Or hmm... say capturing all provinces in CK by alphabetical order.
Ok, now I see whom you were talking about. Yeah - it was also confusing because you were acting like it had just started and anon's already been posting for weeks (admittedly with two provinces to show for it
).
Don't get down in the mouth about it, though. That's pretty advanced vocab to be muffing & it might even have been a botch in your dictionary,* so good job.
j.
* My Chinese-English one put a word for "pinenuts" where there should have been a translation of "florist" so I spent a good chunk of Valentine's Day this year thinking I was asking for directions and instead actually convincing my neighborhood I was some kind of maniac werechipmunk.
EDIT:
Thanks for explaining the correct english usage of the world, but I must emphasize that in Swedish "pedant" although probably closely related to the english usage of the word only refers to someone who is obsessed with doing something correctly.
.shrug.
So now we know why you made a mistake, but it was still the wrong word, unless you change all the other words in your post to Swedish ones, too.
Although you have to agree the "MARCH" is just about to begin, this is the first time he actually takes direct action. Hence the "begins/commence" word usage .
.shrug.
Nah. Still utterly baffling when he's been working so long.
Maybe it's another Swedish thing.