Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for April 03, 2015
April 02, 2015
April 04, 2015
Transcript:
Can you explain the idea of self-referential phrases to me? Well, do you know the old saying about self-referential phrases? No, what is it? That was it. Linguistics profs are a bunch of condescending pedants. Close, but that's redundant, not self-referential.
emptc12 over 9 years ago
One person’s pedant might be another person’s detail-oriented enthusiast. No time for such in many low attention- span cafeteria-style on-line readers, content instead to be shallow dilettantes. I’ve been called a pedant more than once.
Ida No over 9 years ago
Circular: (n) See Circular.
AlanM over 9 years ago
Abbrev.