Unnecessary Pedantry? BC, didn't know you. live on the eastern coast.
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They should also avoid the unnecessary pedantry that beginners associate with scholarly prose. Wordiness tends to obscure the argument. Consider ...
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unnecessary pedantry. Unnecessary pedantry, which is now a requirement for International English.SO, it is more correct to say necessary pedantry in place unnecessary pedantry Those people on the eastern seaboard ignore the linguistic needs of the rest of the English-speaking world where pedantry is necessary and is not unnecessary anymore.
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