Pedantry.

Merci. I did look this up, and dictionary dot com told me it was "pedanticalness." Now I want to go get pedantic on their ass.

The why: Our high-tech conference room reservation system is a calendar taped to the conf. room door. Apparently someone said they hadn't reserved it because they didn't have a pen with them. So the secretary taped a pencil to the door, and put a yellow sticky reading PENCIL --> next to it.

That kicked off a flurry of sticky notes on the door, including "HINGE -->," "HANDLE -->," and "CARPET."

Then someone put a sticky pointing to those that reads "IRONY."

So I crossed that out and wrote "SARCASM." My colleague plans to add a "PEDANTRY" pointer to my note. "BUFFISTA" would obviously work just as well, but not make sense to anyone else.

pedanticalness

Pedatification.

Ha, you rules followers! I mock you and your faith in being enfranchised in an equitable system.

I had a college friend who got very very irate with me any time I got an extension on a paper.

She extrapolated that grades were competitive and translated into job opportunities. Which I don't think is true - we both graduated from Kenyon with a B.A. and that's all anybody would really look at. But I didn't care - I was only interested in writing the best paper and sometimes that took more time.

Pedatification.

Pedanticalosity.

Pedantasticness.

Pedantasticness.

That's pedantastic!

Pedantiliciousness.

Pendantrocity.

Pedantomania

Pendantapalooza!