Posts Tagged ‘Pedantry’
In a series of letters to his illegitimate son that have become famous, Lord Chesterfield compares one’s knowledge to (more…)
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
Tags: Ethics, Intelligence, Interdependence, Pedantry, Poetry
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I’ve got a reputation for ‘speaking well’, but the fact is, when people tell me so, it is often easy to detect a certain bitter feeling in their praise. Where does it come it from? Well, the immediate guess is (more…)
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Tags: Body, Emotional intelligence, Humor, Learning, Metaphor, Pedantry, Perception, Writing
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One of the main problems you can encounter in teamwork is what is usually called “highly emotional (more…)
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Tags: Absurdity, Communication, Conflict solving, Education, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Experience, Family, Goal setting, Interdependence, Leisure, Pedantry, Person, Personal development, Personal productivity, Personal relations, Repression, Tasks, Violence
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In terms of energy consumption, pedantry is an outrage. It could be defined as an inflammation of language in which a lot of resources are invested in saying quite little, sometimes even nothing. (more…)
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Tags: Beauty, Children, Education, Habits, Language, Pedantry, Writing
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