For years, linguists, grammar nerds, and pedants have battled over the Oxford comma.

多年，语言学家、语法怪才和学究们一直在为牛津逗号争论不休。

A pedant will correct native speakers' mistakes too, and not in the classroom.

学究也会纠正母语使用者的错误，而且并不是在课堂上。

Yes, and you thought I was a pedant!

是的，你还认为我是个学究！

Well, I hate to sound like an academic, but yes and no.

嗯，我不想像个学究，但说不准。

You're his parent. I'm just an absentminded academic who's never had children.

你是他亲娘，我只不过是个脑子糊又从未有过孩子的老学究。

So tell that to the next pedant who tries to correct you.

所以告诉下一个试图纠正你的学究。

The donnish duo, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, have each written a stack of books.

·兰德 (Tom Holland) 和多米尼克·桑德布鲁克 (Dominic Sandbrook) 这对学究式的二人组各自写了一堆书。

The first major problem that you see with it is the selective use of pedantry.

你看到的首要大问题是它有选择性地使用学究式细节。

One is a sort of demand for pedantry.

一方面是对学究式精确的追求。

Hello there, I'm the cartooniverse's steamiest wonk.

你好，我是卡通宇宙中最火热的学究。

And I think It's academic, it's smug, it's elitist, and it's wrong.

我认为这种态度是学究气的、自满的、精英主义的，而且是大错特错的。

So that was my pedantic moment as a childish seamstress.

那就是我作为稚嫩小裁缝的学究时刻。

Nash criticizes Harvey for being a long-winded pedant who loves to hear himself talk.

纳什批评哈维是个长篇大论的学究，喜欢到自己说话的声音。

Pedant for pedant, the old is better than the new.

学究对学究， 旧的不如新的。

We like friendly tone that's not overly pedantic.

我们喜欢友好且不过于学究的语气。

But there I am perhaps somewhat of a pedant.

但我可能有点学究气。

Dude, he's totally old school, not to mention just plain old.

大哥 他完全是个老学究，不是说一点半点的老。

So that's the first category is selectively weaponized pedantry.

所以第一类是选择性武器化的学究气。

Err, shouldn't that be five minutes? - Oh, Rob, you are being pedantic-focussing too much on the small details or formal rules.

呃，不应该是五分钟吗？罗伯，你表现得像个老学究——太专注于小细节或教条。

He himself, in his habitual pedantism, thus divided them, and according placed them in three different portfolios.

他本人以他一贯的学究态度， 将他们分开， 并据此将他们置于三个不同的职位。