language lawyer

短语

词形变化

language lawyers 复数 language lawyers 三单 language lawyering 现在分词 language lawyered 过去式 language lawyered 过去分词

别名

language-lawyer

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A pedant, someone overly focused on semantics.

    俚语

    This website is full of way too many language lawyers who get in the way of all the meaningful discussions.

  2. 2.

    An expert of a programming language who is extremely well-versed in its specification.

    俚语 计算机 工程 数学

    I need a language lawyer: is this UB?

v.
  1. 1.

    To behave in a lawyer-like way and discuss semantic differences pedantically. To lawyer over language.

    俚语

    Let's not language lawyer the little details; a big-picture approach will be fine for this tutorial.

词源

Compound of language + lawyer. Defined in the Jargon File. The definition is often cited verbatim as: A language lawyer is distinguished by the ability to show you the five sentences scattered through a 200-plus-page manual that together imply the answer to your question “if only you had thought to look there”.

来源：wiktionary