User:Pedant
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[edit] 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
[edit] 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.
[edit] What the dictionary says about "pedant"
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.
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."
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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".)
[edit] 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.
[edit] Noun
A noun describes a thing, or person or place. As a noun, a fuss is "too much activity or chatting about something".
[edit] Verb
As a verb, "fuss means to be very worried or excited about something".
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
