this has been so weird. about 7 of the ~20 people I have polled here and on various messaging apps swear they know this word and they all believe it means approximately the same thing, terribly anal or picky. when did this word enter our minds and why does it not exist in other people's minds/
#perfinicky in the real world:
https://blog.freedomscientific.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/FSCast225Transcript-January2023.html 2023, a podcast transcript describing the role of Braile in music creation 1/n
#pefinicky Ayyar, R.V. Vaidyanatha, 'Don’t Count Your Chickens', The Holy Grail: India's Quest for Universal Elementary Education (Delhi, 2016; online edn, Oxford Academic, 22 Sept. 2016), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199463473.003.0016, accessed 31 Aug. 2024. chapter in a book, describing the hassles in securing the approval of the World Bank for DPEP & the organizational politics within the Bank
https://www.bibblebar.com.au/customer-comments #perfinicky nature, in a comment thread about motorcycle paraphernalia
https://www.supremecourt.gov/pdfs/transcripts/1987/87-526_03-28-1988.pdf A transcript from the US supreme court " QUESTION: And you are playing fast and lose
with the statute anyway by allowing actual notice instead
of the specific kind of notice that is required, but you are
suddenly going to stop short of allowing the complaint to be
actual notice . That seems to me getting #perfinicky at a
very late date"
https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/no-herb-sparkles/374472 A online game discussion forum where someone is being highly exact about when the particular mod/ change was pushed to the game.
2002 https://mail-01.amsat.org/archives/amsat-bb/200203/msg00060.html a discussion about antennas
>>and loop yagi but perhaps patches are more 'perfinicky' and I don't have
>>access to any modelling or analysis apparatus.
and finally, discsussion on an LA times crossword page https://laxcrossword.com/2014/09/la-times-crossword-answers-12-sep-14.html 2014,
there are many other examples, some in news papers, mostly on blogs and comments etc. indicating that a wide bunch of people from around the world believe that this word exists and it means fussy
@anandphilipc It depends on how you define "real word."
@geographile should i take it as a yes?
@anandphilipc Sounds like a blend of per(s)nickety and finicky.
@pbloem I think so too. alternate is that it was a way to reinforce finicky