Letters to
the Editor
Dear Editors,
I was very disappointed to see your article, “The Solution to Poor Pedantry is... More, Better Pedantry” from the Meta-Pedantry Association. Are you not aware that they are a radical nihilistic splinter group of the Γραμματο-Χαοτικον? Their generally unpublicized goal is to increase the density of meta-pedantry and other forms of so-called “self-folding pedantry” in order to create a pedantic singularity and potentially cause the collapse of the academic-pedantic continuum.
I personally do not believe in the academic-pedantic continuum, nor that a singularity could be created through recursive meta-pedantry. However, it still seems like a bad idea to give a platform to such radicals.
Elbart Ainstain
Prof. of Experimental Linguophysics
University of Menz Fragranz, Doitchland
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Dear Doc Onerock,
While we are also not overly worried about the collapse of the academic-pedantic continuum...
[gestures broadly at everything]
...the apocalypse does seem to be getting pretty nigh.
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