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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.
The NYT finds that in his confrontation with DOJ lead attorney David Boies, Gates was "evasive and uninformed, pedantic and taciturn," ( USAT and WSJ also opt for "evasive"), and observes that when confronted with company e-mail he'd authored, he frequently said he did not recognize the messages or recall the circumstances behind them.
Whenever I see the term African-American , with its sixteen letters, in print twelve times in a single article, I wonder if the writer realizes how much space is wasting and how pedantic it all sounds.
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 .
Starr's pedantic, religious, exacting personality led him to drag out a case that other prosecutors would have ended quickly.