pettifogging

The answers to any questions about this sort of stuff would be full of pettifogging, passsive voice, and legalese.

This kind of pettifogging guff is common on a whole bunch of WP.

Until then, anyone would've told you the current theory of logic was as advanced as it'd ever been, and the Stoics were guilty of arid pettifogging.

Is pettifogging some kind of etymological parent of bikeshedding then?

Which is my point, and my only point, and not really up for debate by some pettifogging rando with nothing better to fill a Saturday night.

> pettifogging Off-topic but just wanted to thank you for teaching me a new word.

Not that I don't come here precisely for pointless disputation, but even my battered pride eventually scruples at this kind of pop-psychological pettifogging you so favor.

It offers a venue for the love of pettifogging disputation and waspish propriety that's always flawed an otherwise I think quite solidly respectable sort of character.

@smoyer You have no need to question citizen, Facebook coined a double plus good term and you accuse them of pettifogging,redefining words, Newspeak.

One is for the opportunity to indulge my own love for needless pettifogging and disputation, a flaw in my character I have never managed fully to extirpate.

People who are not yet interested in Lisp, on the other hand, could well see this sort of pettifogging by someone clearly invested in it as a reason to avoid becoming more so.

While I understand the desire for a unified Python ecosystem as much as anyone - this kind of pettifogging is not going to convince anyone to switch to Py3.

If you want them to "give and come to terms with each other" then you're going to have to endure some ostensible pettifogging.

I'm not "pettifogging" and your G/g distinction is not accurate.

By this definition a hammer is a magical or "magickal" implement - the K was Crowley's invention, so that he could trademark it - which of course can be true if someone decides as much, but the only reason to couch such trivia in the pettifogging obscurity Crowley favored is because doing so will help you nail bored young socialites, an activity which Crowley also famously favored.

Pettifogging about definitions isn't helpful when the point of the comment was to emphasize that the distinction is less clear in the UK than the US.