Are you a "Smartass?"

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16 Apr 2010, 2:01 pm

Any examples on a situation where someone is being a smart-ass (I would like that to be pointed out)?
Would pedant be a synonym?
pedant - noun
A pedant is a person who is overly concerned with formality and precision or who makes a show of his learning.
I was called this by my father.
He also called me a smart-ass.
So I guess I am.
But I missed the cue.

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16 Apr 2010, 2:04 pm

I thought "smartass" meant "impertinent"?

I was called that as a child because I saw adults as equals, and treated them the same as I treated anyone else. Some adults didn't like this because I guess they figured I was supposed to look up to them. I didn't think age was particularly important. I obeyed rules, rather than authority figures. So I guess people didn't like it when I didn't defer to them.

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16 Apr 2010, 2:40 pm

Yeah smart ass/smarty pants here :oops:
And pedantic.

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16 Apr 2010, 3:12 pm

wendigopsychosis wrote:

Surreal wrote:

wendigopsychosis wrote:

Oh god, I'm such a smartass. I don't even realize it most of the time...
I have a reputation among my friends for being the "know-it-all" (lovingly, of course

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I'm the type who will pipe in on a conversation to correct a fact or assumption, and then go on and on about why I'm right and they're wrong hahaha.
My mom always got on my case for "provoking unnecessary arguments." And of course, being a smartass, I would respond that it's not an argument, I was simply correcting her, and if she wants to argue with me about it then it's her fault. :lol:

I had a friend who said to me one time, "Why do YOU always have to be RIGHT?"

He asked that just because he would say things that were incorrect and try to pass it off as the truth when I knew it wasn't. I didn't want him to go elsewhere with it and make an ARSE of himself, so I would try to bring it up tactfully, but you just CAN'T tell some people some things.

Exactly! For the most part, I correct people just because I can't stand to hear incorrect information if I know the real side of things, but the reason I correct people in class is because I don't want them to keep on believing something wrong and then fail the class.

RIGHT! And then they get upset because you're trying to help them!

ursaminor wrote:

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A pedant is a person who is overly concerned with formality and precision or who makes a show of his learning.

People would say that decribes me well.

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16 Apr 2010, 8:52 pm

ursaminor wrote:

A pedant is a person who is overly concerned with formality and precision or ...

I can be flexible with formality, but how could anyone be "overly concerned" with precision?! Something is either precise, or it is not.

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16 Apr 2010, 8:55 pm

At times I can be.

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16 Apr 2010, 10:54 pm

I get called stuff like smartass and witty a lot. I'm told I take the sarcasm thing too far sometimes. When I started looking into the AS diagnosis, people close to me (like family) thought that couldn't be me because I dish out sarcasm so well. (I don't get it 100% of the time, but they don't see that.) I think I started developing a sarcastic sense of humor to compensate for when I didn't know how to respond to stuff in conversation. My psychologist thinks sarcasm means I'm holding in anger or something like that

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16 Apr 2010, 11:03 pm

Are you a "Smartass?

Moi

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16 Apr 2010, 11:07 pm

Oui, Vous

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17 Apr 2010, 12:27 am

I'm a smartass all the time. Sometimes I realize it but most of the time I don't. It pisses my parents off but I think my girlfriend is getting used to it. I try not to be but it just slips out.

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17 Apr 2010, 6:00 am

Yes, I am.

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