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But the larger vocabulary of English is irrelevant in two respects: much of this larger vocabulary is esoteric, exotic, pedantic, or otherwise as foreign to everyday English usage as Chinese; and whereas vocabulary is quantified by words, the expressive units of French tend to be phrases, such as chemin de fer, joie de vivre , and raton laveur . By the usual lexical reckoning one could say that French has no word for rail-road or raccoon .
They burrow into the arcana of their topics and inundate potential acolytes with a barrage of pedantic details.
Starr's pedantic, religious, exacting personality led him to drag out a case that other prosecutors would have ended quickly.
John's pedantic speech is quoted accurately but characterized as a "tirade," and Reich's answer is given as the mumbling equivocation that it actually was ("John, I will get back to you with all the information on it.
It's only January and I'm already tired of Bradley's pedantic tone and Gore's you-voted-for-vouchers-20-years-ago tone.