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Re: OT: "Pedantic" Sighting
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Tracy Pierce <[log in to unmask]>
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Tracy Pierce <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 6 Jul 2006 18:09:17 -0700
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jeez, sounds like you NEED a little pedance.  intuition is a noun made of a verb by adding ion, meaning "the state or act of".

 http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/intuit

Main Entry: in·tu·it 
Pronunciation: in-'tü-&t, -'tyü-
Function: transitive verb
: to know, sense, or understand by intuition 
- in·tu·it·able  /-&-t&-b&l/ adjective 

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of john pitman
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 3:01 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: OT: "Pedantic" Sighting
> 
> Very COMMON perception thing IMHO. Ever noticed more of a car 
> make/model
> once you buy or decide to look seriously at buying one?
> 
> I find the worst thing is when some cretin "invents" a new 
> word and it seems
> to be picked up by everybody and their dog. Especially 
> irritating when they
> convert word types- most will know about 'intuition' - it's a 
> noun , a name
> for a sense or method of arriving at a conclusion. Somebody 
> is now making it
> into a verb, as in 'I intuited...'    arrrhhhhhggggggg!!!! 
> Whats wrong with
> divined, guessed, suspected etc?
> 
> jp
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Johnson, Tracy
> Sent: Friday, 7 July 2006 3:27 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: "Pedantic" Sighting
> 
> Ever wonder when you hear a rarely used word, all of a sudden 
> you see it
> more often?
>  
> Now that Larry Barnes had to look up "pedant", I find it 
> cropping up all
> over the place.
>  
> The latest is a Eugene's "Volokh Conspiracy."  See:
>  
> http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2006_07_02-2006_07_08.shtml
> #115220624
> 7
>  
> 
> Tracy Johnson
> Measurement Specialties, Inc.
> 
> BT
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